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...
I normally jump right into the numbers but this is an unusual month and, as such, requires a special introduction. (I really want to use a GIF of Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride intro here because it would be perfect but I can't find one.) But...
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...
At the moment I'm writing this, I'm sitting just a few words over 40,000 for the month.  This was a month of slow, painful editing so the fact that I'm track when all I've felt like I'm doing is spinning my wheels is nice. The serial Wrimo in me hates to see the words...
I'm having one of those days when the writing is just not happening. I can't make myself open my work in progress, the words are coming like molasses, and I'm just bopping around the internet doing absolutely anything to avoid doing some actual writing. And it's in...
Turns out, it's waaaay easier to be transparent when things are going well... I usually write this monthly recap a few days before the month ends, whenever I have some spare time, and update the numbers later. That's because I'm usually eager to get to it and get a...
My vampire Santa Claus play, which is of course the inspiration for this MG series I've been writing and the prequel to my most quotable play, New Year's Thieve, is now available in eScript exclusively from Playscripts! eScripts are electronic copies for perusal or to...
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