Dorothy Day

Haunted By God: The Life of Dorothy Day is an acclaimed play about the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, who spent 47 years caring for the poor and leading the Catholic Church to a more active concern for the needy in U.S. society.

Hailed as "a moving, magnificent one-woman show," this dramatic portrait, featuring Still Point founder and director Lisa Wagner, follows Dorothy from her days as a 17 year-old Greenwich Village bohemian, through her middle years as a social activist and journalist to her later years as an elderly, wise leader.

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a powerful woman of immense conviction. In New York in 1933, she and a French-born itinerant philosopher Peter Maurin co-founded the Catholic Worker, a living movement that has been responsible for feeding and housing the homeless while maintaining a monthly, nationally-read newspaper. Today, there are over 100 Catholic Worker houses in the United States and around the world, including communities in Toronto and Oxford, England.

Lisa with Msgr. Doug Doussan and Sister Kathleen Pittman, St. Gabriel
the Archangel parish, New Orleans.

Dorothy spent 47 years living with the poor and challenging the U.S. Government to halt acts of war. She is known as the "mother of the peace movement" in the United States and has influenced such American peacemakers as Daniel Berrigan and Michael Harrington. She has been called "the most significant, interesting and influential person in the history of the American Catholic Church."

Since 1990, Haunted By God has been performed all over the US and Canada, (including Guam) and has toured Europe twice.

The play was also performed at the Pax*Christi International Conference in Assisi, Italy in May of 1995. In 1999, it was performed in Cape Town, South Africa at the Parliament of World Religions. It was written by Paul Amandes, Lisa Wagner (who also portrays Day) and Robert McClory. Directed by Virginia Smith, with costume and set design by Daniel Ostling, this acclaimed production has been touring the U.S. since May 1990 and toured Europe in February and March of 1994.