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School friendly TYA plays by Hillary DePiano, a guide for drama teachers and other theatre educators

School friendly TYA plays by Hillary DePiano, a guide for drama teachers and other theatre educators

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...
Exactly which fairy tale is Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird based on?

Exactly which fairy tale is Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird based on?

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...
Orange is the new Black but Green is the new Orange

Orange is the new Black but Green is the new Orange

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...
Adapting the Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Adapting the Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

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...
Read all of The Love of Three Oranges for free on Playscripts this week only

Read all of The Love of Three Oranges for free on Playscripts this week only

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 6, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

  Playscripts has been doing this neat thing where they feature a different play each week and this week the spotlight’s on my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges! That means you can read the entire play, for free, right here until next Wednesday,...
Here’s how to get 50-100% off my books & plays (including the pre-order of The Green Bird)

Here’s how to get 50-100% off my books & plays (including the pre-order of The Green Bird)

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 30, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

Who doesn’t like free books? There’s a 50-100% discount on a bunch of my books and plays going on as part of Smashwords’ big sale and I realized I never publicized it over here. The sale only runs until the end of July so get over there now and take...
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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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