If you missed Three Padded Walls in its run Off Off Broadway, now you've got the chance to watch it in full. Blue Pearl Theatrics was kind enough to put a video of the whole performance up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Please note that, while the script itself...
eBooks, printed books and the format details of selling a self-published stage play
Should you publish your play as a printed book or eBook only? What formats should you use? What platforms? Dipping back into the mailbag today for another one of the questions I got on my big post about self-publishing a stage play. Thanks for your helpful post on my...
A personal thank you to The Drama Book Shop
As most people in the theatre community have heard by now, The Drama Book Shop, one of the largest and most important drama bookstores in the world, was badly damaged by a burst pipe, losing tons of inventory in one of their most popular sections. If you haven't...
Tips for getting a self-published play out there and produced
Once you self-publish a play, how do you get it produced? That's what we're talking about with this question from the Mailbag. (In this series, I'm answering some of the questions I got in response to my big post about self-publishing a stage play.) Great to read your...
Whether you’ve finished your NaNoWriMo novel or not, NaNo What Now? is your guide to the next steps
I've got a brand new book out today in eBook and paperback, NaNo What Now? Finding your editing process, revising your NaNoWriMo book and building a writing career through publishing and beyond, and you may be wondering if this book is for you. To give you a better...
Three Padded Walls goes Off Off Broadway at The Bridge Theater this February 20th – 21st
Three Padded Walls, a play I originally wrote in high school and rewrote last year, will be a part of Dimensions presented at The Bridge Theater on February 20th and February 21st. This is the first production of one of my shows in NYC since Columbia Prep did The Love...
NaNo What Now? Your guide to life after NaNoWriMo is now available for pre-order
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), and the brand...
The Green Bird (one-act version) is now available for productions and perusal
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 incredibly...
Adapting Giambattista Basile’s The She Bear from The Tale of Tales
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 for...
Synopsis & plot summary for Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird, as adapted by Hillary DePiano
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 write up a summary of the entire...
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