2024 was a busy year for me and I finished two brand new plays that I feel confident saying are some of my best work. My mailing list got a sneak peek at these plays last summer, but I’m finally making them available to everyone with a special contest to help me get the word out!

I couldn’t be prouder to present two very different comedies:

The Servant of 123 Masters

inspired by Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters

Truffleato came to Venice hungry for a life of leisure and cookies. Instead he found a master that’s supposed to be dead, a bakery deal about to crumble and a man seeking his lost fiance. The professional servant’s plans for sweet retirement get increasingly complicated as he finds himself taking on one… two… three masters (ah ah ah! ). If he can pull it off, it’s triple wages and all the cookies he can eat, but can he keep his masters apart when it turns out they’re all looking for each other?

aka a hilarious parody of Sesame Street by way of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters

Read on New Play Exchange

The Monthologues

A funny, touching monologue play about all the ways who we are intersects with when we are.

When the school slashes their budget, the misfits of the anti-bullying club have to scramble together a fundraiser or lose the only place they have to be themselves. The last thing anyone wants to do is pose for a charity calendar, especially when they’ve already got a target on their backs just for being different. But as they each take their turn in the spotlight, the resulting snapshots say more about who they all are right now than they do the months of the year.

Read on New Play Exchange

Both plays are free to read on New Play Exchange, but you can also email me directly to request a perusal copy.

It’s been a long time since I had big play out let alone two and during that time many a social networks rose and fell. I want to give these two new plays their very best chance of success and so I need your help in getting them out there!

To that end, I’m trying a totally new kind of contest!

Help me spread this post and win a chance at a custom monologue!

Here’s how it works: By sharing this post and telling your friends, you earn chances to win one of three (3) custom monologues I will write for you specifically for the performer or on the topic of your choice.



To Enter:

Earn an entry for each place you share the link to this blog post publicly anytime between now and March 15th, 2025 wherever it’s most likely to be seen (could be on social media like TikTok, Reddit, Instagram or X/Twitter or more niche spaces such as your own blog, your High School Theatre Facebook group, a play producers forum, etc). Once you’ve shared your post, send me proof of post via this form. (One form per entry.)

Earn extra entries by telling a friend. If someone enters the contest because of you or your shared link, that earns you another chance for each person your post reaches. They just need to specify that they heard about it from you when they submit their form.

I’ll do a random drawing for three (3) unique winners on March 18th, 2025 and contact the winner for the details of their monologue!

Contest Rules

Entrants must be at least 15 years old to be eligible to win the custom monologue.

There is no limit to the number of entries one person can get, but you are limited to one post per account. For example: if you have three Tumblr blogs, you could share it once from all three to earn three entries, but would only earn one by posting three times from the same profile. Exception is if you are submitting to multiple subreddits, closed Facebook groups, email lists or Discords.

Share, don’t spam! Please follow the rules of whatever group or platform you’re sharing on and be respectful! Especially in closed communities, if someone has already shared the link in a space, consider sharing elsewhere.

Shares must still be up by contest end to be eligible (aka you can’t submit a post and then immediately delete it).

The more entries you have, the greater your chances in the drawing but I’ll be choosing three unique winners, aka each entrant can only win once.

Custom monologues will be completed within 90 days of receiving prompt details. Winners can request the length provided they are no longer than 10 minutes.

Monologue is not a commission. Hillary DePiano retains the right to refuse any monologue prompts on the basis of content. In the event of content the author is unable to write, winner will have the option to submit a different request. Author gets final approval of any writing with her name on it.

While the monologue is for you to perform as you wish, Hillary DePiano retains the copyright and, as such, may choose to publish it or include it in future collections or plays. In all cases, winner will always be credited for the original idea and welcome to use the monologue in performance or audition whenever they wish.



Really want that custom monologue?

Book a production or reading of either of these plays before March 15th, 2025 and I will write a custom monologue for your group, even without the contest. (Contracts just need to be signed by March 15th, the actual production or reading date can be for any time within 2025 or 2026.)

This is a brand new kind of contest for me and the very first time I’ve offered custom monologues like this so I’m fully expecting some bumps for this first time, but I’m excited to see how it goes! If somehow we get a lot more entries than I am expecting, I’ll increase the number of winners proportionally.

Questions? Comments? Leave them below!

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