by Hillary DePiano | Oct 22, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
It’s hard to say exactly what draws me to adaptation. Most of the time, I like something in it but hate the rest of it and I end up adapting it to “fix” whatever’s annoying me about the original. But every now and then, I read a story that just...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 13, 2015 | Announcements, Me, but Elsewhere, My Writing, Uncategorized
In all the hubbub lately, I forgot to share that my play, Weak Days, won in the one-act category of The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 16th Annual New Play Contest. They’ll be a reading of the play with minimal staging at The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 27, 2015 | Announcements, Evergreen, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre
The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here’s a quick overview of...
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 18, 2015 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Some people shouldn’t own Photoshop because they’ll just use it to make random stupid graphics. I am one of those people. Behold!…yeah. Somehow I convinced myself that making this was a productive use of my limited time tonight. It probably...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 11, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre
The follow up to my adaptation to The Green Bird was already well underway when I finished that project and, while I’ve referred to it generally a few times before, it’s time to really introduce you to my next adaptation. In college, when I was working on...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
