by Hillary DePiano | Mar 24, 2016 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
If you missed Three Padded Walls in its run Off Off Broadway, now you’ve got the chance to watch it in full. Blue Pearl Theatrics was kind enough to put a video of the whole performance up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Please note that, while the script...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2016 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
As most people in the theatre community have heard by now, The Drama Book Shop, one of the largest and most important drama bookstores in the world, was badly damaged by a burst pipe, losing tons of inventory in one of their most popular sections. If you haven’t...
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...
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...
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 6, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing
I’m having a kind of crazy year and I think it’s probably easiest to just show you what I mean rather than try to explain. Not counting all the events I’m running (and fundraising stunts I’m coordinating) for NaNoWriMo or family holidays and...