by Hillary DePiano | Jan 27, 2015 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Scratch and sniff opera: At “Love for Three Oranges” in 1998, patrons received a scratch and sniff card. During the production someone would hold up a number and audience members would scratch off the corresponding number on their card and be...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 15, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I’m writing, I get a response best described as, “Haha, very funny. What are you...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 26, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
My plan for this month was simple. I was determined to finish the rewrite of Mistress Novel, getting all the scenes I rewrote together and figuring out what still needed to be written before I started the final polishing of this version. Simple enough, I thought, and...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Aw, just look at them. They look so cute together. I had the two of them sitting on my desk and I just had to snap a picture. It’s crazy. The one-act version went from “Eh, I’ll try it.” to published in less than a year. It was December of...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 20, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Schools and other armature groups, I’ve got some great news for you! So many of you want to film your stage production of The Love of Three Oranges or Polar Twilight just to have an archival copy for your cast and crew. You would never do anything illegal like...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 18, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this production as its run continues but I had to just jump in quickly now and let you know about the production of The Love of Three Oranges happening at the Piccolo Theatre in Evanston, IL running from November...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
