I’m having a kind of crazy year and I think it’s probably easiest to just show you what I mean rather than try to explain. Not counting all the events I’m running (and fundraising stunts I’m coordinating) for NaNoWriMo or family holidays and other obligations, this is my November 2015… SHOW PERFORMANCE DATES PRODUCTION GROUP...
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In all the hubbub lately, I forgot to share that my play, Weak Days, won in the one-act category of The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 16th Annual New Play Contest. They’ll be a reading of the play with minimal staging at The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New Play Festival on Saturday, November 7, 2015. I love this weird little play and I’m so...
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The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here’s a quick overview of everything I have available right now that can work with student actors from middle school to...
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Isn’t it weird how much writing itself can get in the way of a career as a writer? I missed two weeks of blogging in there without even realizing it just because there was so much going on. Here’s a quick recap of some of the biggest things that happened so far this month… I have a brand new play, Three Padded Walls, a drama I originally...
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Weak Days a comedy in one-act by Hillary DePiano 6-7 Gender Neutral roles Run Time: 40 – 45 minutes We’ve all got our routines. It’s comfortable, doing the same thing every day. But when something makes you stop and really look at your life, you may find yourself wondering, is this really living? Are you making the most of the time you have or...
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When I was at the TGIO* for my NaNoWriMo area last year, we were talking about keeping the writing going year round because a lot of my Wrimos have no problem writing 50,000 words every November but struggle to write anywhere near that the entire rest of the year combined. I was trying to sell them on setting a yearly goal like I do and they were...
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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.
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
Review: Can 4TheWords, the fantasy game for writers, be used for editing and other off-site writing?
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” ?
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