by Hillary DePiano | Jul 30, 2018 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
No, it’s not just you. It is really freaking hard to write right now. The world has gone mad, everything is terrible and all that continuous fear and rage and stress makes it really hard to focus on anything, much less fiction. Creatives, like writers, are...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 12, 2016 | External Stimuli, Personally..., Uncategorized
It is my personal theory that everyone has one. “I can’t pick you up right now, bud. I’m already carrying 37 billion things.” “The doctor’s went fine apart from the fact that I had to sit in the waiting room for 37 hours before they...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 26, 2016 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, Playwriting and Theatre
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,...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 24, 2016 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2016 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 25, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Sometimes a coincidence so weird happens, you just gotta share it. As you know, I’m adapting an old collection of obscure Italian fairy tales called the Pentamerone into several plays. Well, as part of that process, I wanted to find out the name of some other...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
