Here’s something exciting: The Fourth Orange and Other Fairy Tales You’ve Never Even Heard Of is finally ready to share with the world! This play has been 6 years in the making* and is without a doubt the most complicated thing I have ever attempted to write** but, dang, it was worth it. How I love this weird and wild little piece of theatre!...
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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 ways, people were confused as that could be the title of a lot of different things...
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2016 was a crap sandwich for just about everyone and I’m no exception. It was a crazy stressful year full of unexpected changes and pressures and so much of the future is still uncertain. But while 2016 felt like a big fat fail as I was living it, it actually turned out to be a pretty darn good year for writing, oddly enough. Let’s take a...
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Yes, siree, only the highest quality Photoshopping is good enough for my blog… If you thought The Revenant would have been better if Leonardo DiCaprio & the bear fell in love HAVE I GOT A PLAY FOR YOU! The second of my Tale of Tales plays is now available for perusal and premieres and it’s The She Bear. There are two different versions of...
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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 read that my writing year ends in November so December is the first month of my new Writing...
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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.
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
Random plot generators for writer’s block (& a laugh)
Who said “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain” ?
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
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