short writing exercises just to keep writing.
Download the script (PDF) Tag Ur It A Five-Minute Play By Conrad A. Panganiban CAST OF CHARACTERS ME, 10, a Kid of Color from Immigrant Parents GAB, 10, a Kid of Color SETTING ME’s front yard driveway. Lights up with ME sitting downstage gazing into the ether. Enter GAB. GAB Hey! I’ve been looking all…
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Download the script (PDF) BANG BANG CLAP A Comedy Sketched into Two Banging Bamboo Poles by conrad a. panganiban Characters: A: A Pin@y of any gender of any age DOC: A Therapist of any gender of any age A is sitting down while DOC is standing with a pad and paper. A: Doc! Ya gotta…
Read more...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…
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…
Just wanted to share this piece I needed to write for my Monologues Class. Oh, and not only is it a writing class, we have to perform it too! I’m glad it didn’t have to be off-book because I got so nervous that I had blanked out a couple of times when we workshopped this…
THE INFINITE LINE BETWEEN, ME, LOLO AND LOCO Conrad A. Panganiban RIZAL: 20s. Male. Filipino-American. Hip-hop head and skater. Grandson ni Lolo. LOLO: Mid 60s . Male. Filipino. Appears to be going into Dementia. Rizal’s grandfather. LOLA: 50s-60s. Female. Filipino. Lolo’s wife and Rizal’s grandmother. A special lights up RIZAL, while his LOLO (grandfather in…
WRONG NUMBERS Conrad A. Panganiban written 8/28/2012 KIYOMI: 40s. Female. Office accountant. ANDUS: 30s. Male. Office sales staff. (KIYOMI is standing in front of the Xerox machine waiting for a piece of paper to print out, but nothing is happening. So she starts to press a couple of buttons… when ANDUS enters.) ANDUS Hey, Kiyomi….
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…
Earlier today, I went to a quick workshop with playwright, A. Rey Pamatmat. The exercise given was to randomly draw one of Aristotle’s Poetics (Plot, Character, Action, Language (Diction/Rhythm/Melody), Spectacle, and Music) and a written down subject/object/phrase etc, and combine them somehow. This is what I blindly drew: 1) Diction/Rhythm 2) Your surname spelled backwards…
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/mis/2161327767.html Location: Chevron on 41st Me: Cute girl driving black Civic – my friend gave you a thumbs up 🙂 You: I think you’re Batman, but I need to know for sure. You drive what’s known around here as the Batmobile. I’ve seen your car around before, but today I got to see you through…
