December 2025 – Conrad A. Panganiban

DialogueLab – Get your characters’ voices out of your head and into your ears

Posted on 12/28/202501/04/2026 by Conrad

I created a new tool for writers who write conversations between characters called DialogueLab! It’s my hope that it will help writers with your stories.

Don’t Bring Up The War

Posted on 12/28/202512/28/2025 by Conrad

Wrote this a while ago for a sketch writing comedy class as an exercise on escalation.

Epiphany

Posted on 12/13/202512/13/2025 by Conrad

They, whoever they is, say that knowing is have the battle. (What that GI Joe?), but I think I hit on why I’ve been in a writing rut. And here’s a post to think it through.

Conrad A. Panganiban (he/him/his) is an award-winning Filipino American playwright representing the San Francisco Bay Area. His plays include Daryo’s All-American Diner, Welga, and River’s Message. Conrad’s work has been produced by Bindlestiff Studio, The Chikahan Company, CIRCA Pintig (IL), the MaArte Theatre Collective, and CATS (Contemporary Asian Theatre Scene) . Awards include: Best Play of 2023, Daryo’s All-American Diner (BroadwayWorldAwards Chicago), Best New Play, Daryo’s All-American Diner (Chicago Reader, Best of 2023), Susan Fairbrook Playwright Fund Awardee (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), 2023 New Voices in Comedy Writing Fellowship (Killing My Lobster), James Milton Highsmith Award Winner (SFSU), National Ten-Minute Play Festival Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist (Playwrights Foundation). Resident Artist: Bindlestiff Studio. Member: Dramatist Guild of America, and Theatre Bay Area. MFA, San Francisco State University. @consplayspace