Author. Playwright. Speaker.
Hillary DePiano
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction author best known for fantastically funny fairy tales, surprisingly sweet slapstick and unrelentingly upbeat writing advice.
by Hillary DePiano
Building a Writing Life
start a writing habit, find time to write, discover your process and commit to your writing dreams
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Award Winning Playwright
Plays for All Ages
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New Release: The Virtual Years
Popping in with a quick bit of news about a brand new release! Just released from YouthPLAYS, an anthology of plays originally written for streaming which includes one of my favorite plays I've ever written, Nana's Happy Happy Good News Only Birthday Video Chat. The...
Working with your weirdness
One of the reasons I'm such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we've all got our little quirks and you'll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual Weirdness. Stuff...
In which I’m on Bluesky now!
So, um, yeah. Crazy times we're having, no? Social media as we know it is imploding. There's a boycott and mass exodus going on with all the biggies (Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok and Instagram) hemorrhaging users as people delete their accounts. I've never seen...
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