artwork by Melissa Schenter See a spooky production of my Edgar Allan Poe inspired play, The Raven / Lenore as well as two other great creepy plays, from the comfort of your own home this weekend only! The Rude Mechanicals, normally the home of kick-ass Shakespeare...
I've been on a blogging and social media hiatus basically since the pandemic started but that doesn't mean I haven't still been working. But things have been kind of crazy and time's blurring together so I figured now might be a great time to remind you of everything...
Long time no chat! I'm still on my hiatus from social media but I want to pop in with some exciting news! My first play specifically for elementary school aged performers and up, The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Storm, is now available exclusively through...
In other exciting news, Week Daze (formerly named Weak Days just to make my life as confusing as possible) is now available exclusively from Stage Partners! There are two separate versions of this play. One is a traditional stage play that can be performed socially...
I know that some of you out there are as obsessive as me when it comes to trying to figure out how far along you are in National Novel Writing Month so I decided to share my personal calculator. It's simple but powerful. This calculator will work in Open Office,...
It's actually a complete coincidence that The Myrtle, my romantic comedy about a tree that comes to life, is coming out on Arbor Day but it's too perfect so I'm certainly not mad about it! Check it out today in eBook and Paperback wherever such things are sold! The...
Whenever I adapt something, people always ask me what it was that I loved about the original that made me adapt it and, 9 times out of 10, I don't adapt something because I love it but rather because I absolutely hate it and want to fix it. But this was not the case...
It's a good Friday! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself!) Why? Because The Fourth Orange (one act edition) is officially available in paperback and eBook today just about everywhere books are sold. It's a funny family friendly one act fairy tale with majority female roles...
So with the theatre industry largely imploding and productions being canceled right and left. It's incredibly disappointing for all performers and everyone else who works behind the scenes to get a show up. My heart breaks for everyone who was so excited to put on a...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
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50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
Random plot generators for writer’s block (& a laugh)
Should you write by hand? Handwriting pros and cons
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