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Article: Jean Donovan to get new life in drama: actress takes stage to recreate 'moments' in holy women's lives. (Lisa Wagner portrays Dorothy Day and, Jean Donovan)(Ministries)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- January 19, 1996
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At 5 she was staging shows in her back yard, entertaining schoolmates in the basement and performing pantomimes at parties for her parents' friends. Her singer father, Richard Wagner, gutted a television set so she could use it as a puppet theater.
At 15 she made a retreat that inspired her to think seriously about her Christian faith and set her on the path of her own faith journey. The route, she later discovered, was one that would combine ministry and theater.
Now 32, actress Lisa Wagner has brought Dorothy Day to life before nearly 200 audiences. She has carted her six bags of props across America, hauled her gear from Nova Scotia to Vancouver during a ...