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 30, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Who doesn’t like free books? There’s a 50-100% discount on a bunch of my books and plays going on as part of Smashwords’ big sale and I realized I never publicized it over here. The sale only runs until the end of July so get over there now and take...
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 21, 2015 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I am not big on online quizzes but this one happened to catch my eye and I knew I just had to take it. Â It purported to determine “What commedia dell’arte character are you?” and I took it and to the surprise of no one the result was… I mean,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
