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The Green Bird (one-act version) is now available for productions and perusal

The Green Bird (one-act version) is now available for productions and perusal

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

I honestly didn’t think it was possible but I pulled it off! After finishing a big revision of The Green Bird at the very end of December, I spent the beginning of January chopping the two-hour full length play down to about half an hour. It was such an...
Adapting Giambattista Basile’s The She Bear from The Tale of Tales

Adapting Giambattista Basile’s The She Bear from The Tale of Tales

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 26, 2016 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Yes, siree, only the highest quality Photoshopping is good enough for my blog… If you thought The Revenant would have been better if Leonardo DiCaprio & the bear fell in love HAVE I GOT A PLAY FOR YOU! The second of my Tale of Tales plays is now available...
Synopsis & plot summary for Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird, as adapted by Hillary DePiano

Synopsis & plot summary for Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird, as adapted by Hillary DePiano

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 14, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized

There’s been a lot of traffic to this post, What’s different in Hillary DePiano’s adaptation of The Green Bird vs Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte original?, so I figured I’d do you one better and share the full synopsis. I had to...
December 2015: Starting off on the right foot

December 2015: Starting off on the right foot

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 31, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Uncategorized

This is a total cheat of a blog post that I’m writing in December 2016 because I realized that I totally forgot to do a recap post for December 2015 and I want it here with all the rest for closure. As such, I’ll keep it super short. Keep in mind as you...
2015: Hillary’s Year in Writing Debriefed

2015: Hillary’s Year in Writing Debriefed

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 31, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I’ll be the first to admit that I have a pretty terrible concept of time. I talked at length in this post about how having a poor sense of time can be damaging to your self-worth and harmful to your productivity. To combat those issues and more, this year I...
A peek at my To Do list through the end of the year

A peek at my To Do list through the end of the year

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 24, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I don’t usually share my To Do list because I assume no one cares but I’m in the weird position where I owe a lot of people various things and rather than try to email everyone an update, it seems simpler to just do one big pots of where I am right now and...
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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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