by Hillary DePiano | Sep 27, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
The 2016 election threw us all for a loop that we’re still dealing with. Shortly after the election, I saw a tweet to the effect that you’ll probably be able to tell exactly where writers were in their manuscripts when the election happened and I thought...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 31, 2018 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
What is The Tale of Tales play? Around this time last year, I announced the premiere of a brand new play, The Tale of Tales. Considering I’m in the midst of a many year project of adapting Giambattista Basile’s Tale of Tales collection in a dozen different...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2017 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Since early 2003, you’ve been hearing me talk about my project adapting the Italian fairy tale collection, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone, into a whole bunch of plays. There are six tales plays from this project finished so (of...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 31, 2017 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
In all the moving / having a baby madness of the last year, I finished a play but forgot to actually tell anyone about it for almost an entire year! (Like, seriously 11 months almost to the day as I finished it on August 29th, 2016.) This play is The Myrtle, the fairy...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 6, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
I was going to make the title of this post a play on May Day and then fell into a Wikipedia hole about May Day, the spring holiday, vs MayDay, the distress signal, and barely escaped so that’s why you got a boring title instead. The fact that it is already June...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 5, 2017 | External Stimuli, Uncategorized
Having bid our official farewell to Old House (as my 4 year old calls it), it’s time to talk a bit about New House. To start with, it’s lovely and has much to recommend it, though there are also a fair amount of headaches we knew were coming because...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
