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...
Looking for ideas for staging Three Padded Walls? I've been incredibly fortunate to have some great productions of my play, Three Padded Walls, and I wanted to share some of these great productions with you. Rather than bombard you with a dozen posts on this, I...
Here's some exciting news I've been eager to share with you. The Cuckoo's Theater Project in Chicago will be presenting The Green Bird from June 3rd-June 19th, 2016. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to attend as I hoped and it's absolutely killing me to miss...
My meta suspense drama, Three Padded Walls, is now available through YouthPLAYS. Â That means they've got printable eScripts and bound acting editions (with an extended Q & A session with yours truly I think you'll enjoy) up for sale as well as a very generous...
Here's a super quickie continuing my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series. This is a question I got from a reader and I'm sharing what I replied. Remember, you can read all the other posts in this series by clicking on the series title box just above this line. It will...
As both a playwright and a parent, it delighted me when my daughter starting integrating playwriting into her games. She's always telling me about the play she's writing and every keyboard is an opportunity for her to work on "her script" (which sounds way better than...
Self-publishing a play can be a good idea and I covered a bunch of questions on that over in this big post. But I've since gotten some follow up questions to that big post and wanted to make a little series of the answers. One of the things I cover in that big post...
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