Download the script (PDF) THE TAIL OF THE SIREN By Conrad A. Panganiban DROKOV, An older grizzled male shoemaker turned sailor whose heart has grown cold and dark after spending the last 10 years searching for the Siren that stole his lover on the High Seas. ANGEL, A young, stunning, agendered sailor. Angel’s joy for…
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Download the script (PDF) Our Last Dance A Heartbreakingly Short Romantic Comedy by conrad a. panganiban CAST OF CHARACTERS NOAH: Early 30s. Male. Scorned former fiance of Harper. ELENA: Early 20s. Female. Noah’s date and aspiring model and actress with a Strong Spanish accent. HARPER: Late 20s. Female. Business Professional. Noah’s ex-fiance. GILLES: Early 40s….
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Download the script (PDF) River’s Message by Conrad A. Panganiban CAST OF CHARACTERS RIVER: Female. Late teens – Early twenties. College student. River is a happy-go-lucky type of person despite working through the pain of losing a parent. KENNEDY: Female. Late teens – Early twenties. River’s best friend, genius, and a Computer Science Major and…
Read more...The above is a production still from my 10-minute play, DEVOTED starring Akiko Aspilliaga, Patrick Silvestre and Edu Ibazeta (not pictured). It’s a play that I’ve vowed that I couldn’t write–a love story. I don’t know what it is about love stories, but I just never could get into writing one. Maybe it’s because I…
“What did you think? Did it meet your expectations?” It’s been a long minute since someone’s asked me that about a new work. It feels like it’s been forever since I’ve even written something new. So DEVOTED, my 10-minute timeless love story told through time, officially opens tonight. I’m not going to be there for…
Read more...It’s so easy to quit. Especially now that I have some semblance of financial stability. Seriously though, why do I need to keep chasing after this pipe dream of being a playwright when the possibility of being good in another field is there? That’s my conundrum du jour. In short, I’m confused about life and…
So I posted on my Twitter account (@consplayspace) that last weekend I thought a lot about where I fell, or wanted to fall, in the Artist/Entertainer spectrum. First, I have to consider myself as an artist cuz the very nature of creating something out of nothing, the blank page/screen, constitutes and defines myself as an…
Since The Dramatists Guild of America requires a program to “validate” that I’m a “real” playwright, thought that I’d have it posted up on here. Sincere gratitude goes out to everyone that made this production possible.
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Honestly, there’s so much to say about this play and the process it took to get this from page to stage that I don’t know where to begin. But this is my post-mort to myself so I better make this count! Lessons Okay, these are some of the general lessons that I’ve learned on my…
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Quick admission of vulnerability: I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m running in circles with no direction and confused, tired, and failing. It feels like the only way to find myself is to throw myself into doing MORE things… which ultimately feels like I’m spinning into more madness, isolation, and fear. Backing up: I’ve committed…
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