by Hillary DePiano | Oct 22, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
It’s hard to say exactly what draws me to adaptation. Most of the time, I like something in it but hate the rest of it and I end up adapting it to “fix” whatever’s annoying me about the original. But every now and then, I read a story that just...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 13, 2015 | Announcements, Me, but Elsewhere, My Writing, Uncategorized
In all the hubbub lately, I forgot to share that my play, Weak Days, won in the one-act category of The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 16th Annual New Play Contest. They’ll be a reading of the play with minimal staging at The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New...
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 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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
