#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…
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.
Esperanza Means Hope – UC Davis, UNITY Clap Production
UNITY CLAP THEATRE is a multi-ethnic student-run theatre company that seeks to give a voice to underrepresented communities on campus through performance. This quarter, UCT is producing a production of ESPERANZA MEANS HOPE, an Asian American play set in the Davis/Sacramento area about domestic violence and silence in the API community. Sponsored By: My Sister’s…
The Avengers – Review
I started this blog to be focused on Theatre and my exploration into this new frontier as a playwright. But, this being a journey, I have pleasantly found that at the core of why I want to be a writer, is because I LOVE STORIES and I want to learn how to tell stories the…
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’. Interesting article about racism told from a different point of view. In my goal to reach some kind of definition as to what type of writer I am, I’m finding that deeper questions about how I fit into American society lies. And I think it’s time for me to…
Word for word…
It’d be interesting to do a “word for word” play. But that would be from a producer/director POV instead of a writer. I’ll just put this in for now.
To Be or to be…
Love to write a play that’s done in verse. And not really going by way of Shakespeare’s prose, but using modern English and changing some of the words around. And it’s not my intention to “pose” like a poet or anything. I don’t care about that as much as I’d care if this made sense…
The Sleeping Pirate – An exercise into Language
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…
My Purpose
The following is my Purpose Statement written in application to San Francisco State University, Creative Writing Department’s MFA Playwriting Program. ===== In 1995, my journey of writing stories for the stage began with ANG PALENGKE, meaning “The Marketplace” in Filipino. ANG PALENGKE is a play about the dreams of people living in a provincial town…
SFSU MFA Here I Come!
It had been a day of many previous where it was the time of official torture when I would log into the San Francisco State’s website to check on my status of admittance. Being the impatient Internet troll that I am, I’ve already found forums where there had been others whom have been notified of…
Never give up
Too long for a tweet – Waking up from a nap, I’m watching Louisville vs. Kentucky in the Final Four and I’m struck to see that Louisville is still in this game. Moreso, I’m struck upside the head in seeing how Patino’s team isn’t giving up on anything – rebounds, missed shots, on defense. They’ll…