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NaNo What Now? Your guide to life after NaNoWriMo is now available for pre-order

NaNo What Now? Your guide to life after NaNoWriMo is now available for pre-order

by Hillary DePiano | Feb 2, 2016 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

Yes, I have yet another publishing announcement. I’m apparently only productive in weird spurts, I don’t know what to tell you. But in addition to my new play, The She Bear, the big revision of The Green Bird (which is live so update your eBook copies),...
The Green Bird (one-act version) is now available for productions and perusal

The Green Bird (one-act version) is now available for productions and perusal

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

I honestly didn’t think it was possible but I pulled it off! After finishing a big revision of The Green Bird at the very end of December, I spent the beginning of January chopping the two-hour full length play down to about half an hour. It was such an...
Adapting Giambattista Basile’s The She Bear from The Tale of Tales

Adapting Giambattista Basile’s The She Bear from The Tale of Tales

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 26, 2016 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Yes, siree, only the highest quality Photoshopping is good enough for my blog… If you thought The Revenant would have been better if Leonardo DiCaprio & the bear fell in love HAVE I GOT A PLAY FOR YOU! The second of my Tale of Tales plays is now available...
Synopsis & plot summary for Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird, as adapted by Hillary DePiano

Synopsis & plot summary for Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird, as adapted by Hillary DePiano

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 14, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized

There’s been a lot of traffic to this post, What’s different in Hillary DePiano’s adaptation of The Green Bird vs Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte original?, so I figured I’d do you one better and share the full synopsis. I had to...
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” -Hillary DePiano, New Year’s Thieve

“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” -Hillary DePiano, New Year’s Thieve

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 4, 2016 | Evergreen, In Their Words, Uncategorized

I had some experience with a quote from The Love of Three Oranges going somewhat viral a few years ago but it was nothing like what happened with this line from my play, New Year’s Thieve. Shortly after the play was released last year, I was seeing it...
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