by Hillary DePiano | Feb 9, 2016 | Announcements, Uncategorized
Three Padded Walls, a play I originally wrote in high school and rewrote last year, will be a part of Dimensions presented at The Bridge Theater on February 20th and February 21st. This is the first production of one of my shows in NYC since Columbia Prep did The Love...
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 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 | Jan 4, 2016 | Evergreen, In Their Words, Uncategorized
I had some experience with a quote from The Love of Three Oranges going somewhat viral a few years ago but it was nothing like what happened with this line from my play, New Year’s Thieve. Shortly after the play was released last year, I was seeing it...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 31, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Uncategorized
This is a total cheat of a blog post that I’m writing in December 2016 because I realized that I totally forgot to do a recap post for December 2015 and I want it here with all the rest for closure. As such, I’ll keep it super short. Keep in mind as you...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 17, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, Uncategorized
A few years ago, I was obsessed with the question: What would happen if Frosty’s magic hat had been put atop something other than a snowman? What if you put it on a coat rack? Would that come to life? I started writing a play about it with a very clear idea of...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
