by Hillary DePiano | Aug 22, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized
One of the challenges of an adaptation of The Green Bird is that I have to serve two masters (obligatory commedia reference!) which means that the sort of risque joke a commedia troupe or community theatre can do might be too much for a school. To that end, I’m...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 19, 2016 | Announcements, Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 5, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 3, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 27, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 2, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
