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Introducing Masks, a short drama about the heroes and villains in all of us

Introducing Masks, a short drama about the heroes and villains in all of us

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 25, 2016 | Announcements, Uncategorized

A few weeks ago, I was asked if I would consider writing a short play about bullying. Parents today knows that bullying is on a whole different level now than what we experienced as kids because of the internet and cell phones. It’s a really important thing to...
The Love of Three Oranges 2 aka The Green Bird: Carlo Gozzi’s sequel

The Love of Three Oranges 2 aka The Green Bird: Carlo Gozzi’s sequel

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 21, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized

“I see your adaptation of The Green Bird and that’s all well and good but I thought you were going to write a sequel to The Love of Three Oranges?” -People keep asking me, to my great confusion as The Green Bird IS a sequel to The Love of Three...
Three Padded Walls, production photos and videos of past performances

Three Padded Walls, production photos and videos of past performances

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 16, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized

Looking for ideas for staging Three Padded Walls? I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have some great productions of my play, Three Padded Walls, and I wanted to share some of these great productions with you. Rather than bombard you with a dozen posts on this, I...
The Fourth Orange status report

The Fourth Orange status report

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 14, 2016 | My Writing, Uncategorized

I feel like I’m writing way too many blog posts lately the gist of which is, “I’m an idiot and totally screwed up.” We need to talk about the Tale of Tales project nicknamed 4th Orange. I’ve talked about it in very general terms but I...

The Green Bird is coming to Chicago this June 3 – June 12

by Hillary DePiano | May 31, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

Here’s some exciting news I’ve been eager to share with you. The Cuckoo’s Theater Project in Chicago will be presenting The Green Bird from June 3rd-June 19th, 2016. Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to attend as I hoped and it’s...
Pausing my novel revision for a bit to go back to being a playwright

Pausing my novel revision for a bit to go back to being a playwright

by Hillary DePiano | May 28, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Uncategorized

While I’m not exactly live tweeting my revision (though a bunch of people are on Twitter and it’s very useful to see other writers going through the process to know you’re not alone), I’ve been trying to post regular-ish updates here to give...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
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