Hi! Well, this is my first entry into my journey into writing 31 plays in 31 days. I’ve already, I don’t know if convinced is the word, but convinced myself that the way to finish this is to just do it. From the jump, my mindset with this challenge is to approach this is to…
Author: Conrad
Conrad's a San Francisco Bay Area Playwright. He loves long walks upon the concrete and rainy days. Aside from writing words for actors to regurgitate into an audience's ears and eyes, he loves sports, 90's R&B, and learning.
The Profession Of One Mr. Valentine
THE PROFESSION OF ONE MR. VALENTINE by Conrad A. Panganiban (written 08/01/2012) ANTHONY: Mid-late 30s. Male. Filipino American. FERDINAND: 50s. Male. Filipino American Mobster Entrepreneur. Lights up on a FERDINAND, an older looking Filipino American man dressed in business attire, sitting on a park bench. He’s reading a folded up newspaper. Occasionally, he takes out…
MamaSiHero @ CIRCAPintig’s July Monthly BEAT!
Yay! After having my short play, MamaSiHero, finish up it’s 2 month run with “My Asian Mom” produced by A-Squared Theatre Company at 2 different stages, it’s going to have one more presentation this coming Sunday! If you will be in the area, or know anyone who will, please let them know and come through….
Letting in the Light (or Making Nightingale Adobo)
So I’ve been marinating over the controversy regarding THE NIGHTINGALE playing at The La Jolla Playhouse. Setting the ground: I am American of Filipino descent and I am in the process of building a career in Theatre as a playwright. If you don’t know what the fuss is with this production, search “La Jolla Nightingale”…
31 Plays in 31 Days
31 Plays in 31 Days. I suddenly got very nervous. I signed up to be committed to writing 31 plays in 31 days in August. And knowing me, the only thing I’ve really committed to was TV binging to Breaking Bad and 24. But that was only for a couple of weeks. And that was…
Kind Words of Strangers
“Seeing her departed mother as the superheroine MamaSiHero (written by Conrad A. Panganiban), a grieving writer (Aimee Algas Alker) breaks her writer’s block and gives her mother the gift of comic book afterlife.” via A-Squared Theatre Workshop's My Asian Mom – Gapers Block A/C | Chicago. Think I might steal borrow this logline for MamaSiHero….
Taste Better Wit – The Ad Nauseam Show
Happy to have 3 of my sketches be a part of Taste Better Wit’s Ad Nauseam show which ran from June 14 to June 23 at Bindlestiff Studio, SF. Each writer’s work is so good, I know I’m just lucky to have my stuff share the same stage. I’m still learning, but since it’s in…
Who is MY audience?
“Unfortunately, there’s no distinction of how their Asian mom is any different from my black mom, or anyone else’s mom. If this skit were set in the ’70s, Asian mom would have been Jewish mom.” via A-Squared Theatre Workshop's My Asian Mom – Gapers Block A/C | Chicago. I’m beyond ecstatic to have my play,…
Riding a Tidal Wave in a Bottle
So I read this at an open mic earlier tonight. Was nervous as hell, but got through it okay. I mentioned that I wrote this on my blog. What I didn’t mention was that I wrote this a couple of years ago on another blog. But since I said it was on a blog: Riding…
Learning, learning, learning! My path to being a Playwright.
#SecondCity Writing I: Weak premise. Weak sketch (Week Five) « Tic, Tac, Travel, Tech… Learning, learning, learning. That has been the motto for the last year in my relatively young career. The above links to a blog written by a person taking classes at Second City. The blog basically accomplishes what I’m trying to do…