Three Plays by Monica Wood: Papermaker, the Half-Light, Saint Dad

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. Published in this volume with Papermaker are two other acclaimed plays by Monica Wood, The Half-Light and Saint Dad.

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.