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...
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,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 28, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi’s original. While...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 16, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird is done and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you. There’s  a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional...