A blog post on how I was able to write a whodunnit play in 4 days.
Category: process
The Ruby Reds – The First Draft of a 10-Minute Wicked Noir Play
A short play in process, here’s THE RUBY REDS. It was written during Bindlestiff Studio’s Noir Playwriting Workshop as facilitated by Ed Mabasa.
The Ruby Reds – A Play Outline
Fastest way for me to write a play/scene is plot out the actions in an outline. Check out the outline I used for my new play, The Ruby Reds.
The Process of Writing a New Play…
UPDATED: Visit The Final Search post to read the finished script! I stumbled upon this 5 minute play opportunity from Cone Man Running Productions in Houston, TX: https://www.conemanrunning.com/submit and thought it’d be fun to write for. I have a couple of hours before my ride comes, so what better to add more content onto my…
Googly Over Writing
Dorky title for a blog post I know, but I didn’t know how else to describe the feeling that came over me when I was trying to explain to a friend my writing process. One of the questions he asked was, “So, do you have a set time to write?” I’ve been writing for a…
Finding My Way
So, I’ve been accepted into the Theatre Bay Area ATLAS Program for Playwrights. As defined by me, the ATLAS program is a series of workshops provided by Theatre Bay Area which helps theatre artists take their art to the “next level” which defined is simply what you want to make of it as long as…
Trying…
Lately this playwriting life has been so trying. It’s been over a year since I graduated and don’t feel like I’m no where close to where I want to be. So for the last couple of days I’ve been in a state of depression. And it really sucks hence the name depression. Last week, I…
One Step at a Time…
But just keep moving.
Searching
I feel really alone in this pursuit of being an American Filipino Playwright. I have support, I mean I know I have a lot of amazing people who believe in me and in what I’m trying to do, but that’s not exactly the same thing as having other people who are doing what I’m doing–writing…
All in the Subtext
A play is a poem standing up. -Lorca The first assignment for my Short Plays class was to write 3 one-minute plays. I’ve tried to do this before, but I don’t think it clicked for me until the quote above from Lorca resonated with me. The point of a one-minute is to create a story…