It is my personal theory that everyone has one. "I can't pick you up right now, bud. I'm already carrying 37 billion things." "The doctor's went fine apart from the fact that I had to sit in the waiting room for 37 hours before they saw me." "Those socks are 37 years...
I did a guest post for the Playscripts blog on Friday called Frugal Fantasy: Making Magic on a Less Than Fantastical Budget filled with tips for making magical effects happen on the stage even if you're working on a school or community theatre budget. It's filled with...
My new short play, Masks, deals with bullying and I'm pleased to announce that it's been included in the brand new anthology on that topic from YouthPLAYS called... (Not an official logo or image in any way, just something I threw together in five seconds for this...
One of the challenges of an adaptation of The Green Bird is that I have to serve two masters (obligatory commedia reference!) which means that the sort of risque joke a commedia troupe or community theatre can do might be too much for a school. To that end, I'm...
If you were inspired by the visual spectacle of Julie Taymor's award winning Broadway production of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird back in 2000 and wanted to perform it with your students, you were pretty much out of luck... until now! For the first time, there's a...
The Green Bird is going out of print very soon as it moves over to Playscripts so if you want your copy of the original edition with the pretty green feather cover, you've got to act quickly! The books will be listed for sale for mere days more before I have to pull...
As I eluded to in this post, Jane Austen and I have been having some issues. https://twitter.com/HillaryDePiano/status/743970281107030016 First I wrote this weird SciFi-flavored parody of Pride and Prejudice that culminated in a battle to the death between Jane Austen...
Now that my month of writing insanity is coming to a close, it's time to start showing you the results of all my labors. I wrote A LOT of plays in the last few weeks and I'm pleased to finally share them with you! First up is Vardiello, a modern, commedia style...
A few weeks ago, I was asked if I would consider writing a short play about bullying. Parents today knows that bullying is on a whole different level now than what we experienced as kids because of the internet and cell phones. It's a really important thing to address...
"I see your adaptation of The Green Bird and that's all well and good but I thought you were going to write a sequel to The Love of Three Oranges?" -People keep asking me, to my great confusion as The Green Bird IS a sequel to The Love of Three Oranges. I feel like...
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