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...
The Green Bird is coming to Chicago this June 3 – June 12
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...
Three Padded Walls is now available for purchase & licensing at YouthPLAYS
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...
Quickie answering some reader questions on my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series
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...
A Playwriting Parent Reviews: Action! Writing Your Own Play by Nancy Loewen
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...
Can you give your play a wider retail footprint if it’s already traditionally published?
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...
A quickie from the mailbag on self-publishing and imprint names
Also, I noticed that your books have their own publishing moniker: Hilarity Ensues. How can I get my own imprint if I'm using CreateSpace? It seems like they don't give you that option. I have a registered LLC that I own and we also possess the Trading As name,...
Playwrights, start a mailing list of past productions to market your latest plays
I've mentioned that most of my productions come from my mailing list but what if you don't have one yet? This question come from a comment on one of the other posts in this series, but I'm popping it out to give it better visibility. Great info, Hillary. How do you...
What’s the best place for bulk orders of a printed book or script?
Do you do bulk orders through CreateSpace? This was part of a longer Mailbag question that I separated out because the answer is long. In 2002, when I started this self-publishing journey, print-on-demand printing was WAY more expensive than it is now. I used POD...
Three Padded Walls is coming to YouthPlays
I wasn't sure if I was allowed to say anything about this news yet but then I visited the YouthPlays website and, well, just look at it. Not seeing it? Let me do the zoom for you. Whoa! Hey! That's me! One of many reasons I'm excited that YouthPlays going to be...
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