Three Plays by Monica Wood
Award-winning novelist Monica Wood's first play, Papermaker, debuted at Portland Stage in Portland, Maine, setting the theater’s all-time attendance record and enjoying successful runs at other regional theaters. It tells the story of a paper-mill owner and his daughter who unexpectedly encounter a family of mill workers near the bitter end of a labor strike. .
When her second play, The Half-Light, debuted at Portland Stage, it was the second bestselling show ever. After a chance encounter with a famboyant psychic, a college professor asks herself a profound question: Can certain people be trained to see the dead? Iris's pursuit of an answer lead to more earthbound challenges.
In her latest play, Saint Dad, Suzanne, Bud, and Denise made the tough decision to sell their childhood camp when their father was at death's door; but now that he's made a miraculous recovery, they're doing everything in their power to make sure he doesn't find out.
MONICA WOOD is a novelist, memoirist, and playwright; the 2024 recipient of the Sara Josepha Hale award for excellence in New England literary arts; the 2019 recipient of the Maine Humanities Council Carlson Prize for contributions to the public humanities; and the 2016 recipient of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award for contributions to the literary arts. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, Dan Abbott.