The above is a great example of how to tell a really good story in 30 seconds!
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.
In need of DISCIPLINE
“Trying to work on a script and developing an artsy-fartsy attitude telling meself that “it feels too early to slip into that writing mood.” Not cool to feel that it’s “right” to create in that 2-3am world. Need more discipline to be able to write at any time.” The above was a facebook status post….
Taking Your Play for a Test Spin: The Un/Staged Reading
Stories High 12 Reading Cast of Thicker Than Wine (l:r-Patrick Silvestre, Rob Trinidad, Alan Quismorio, Aaron Niles, Gemma Calderon, and Aura San Miguel) Ooooos Ahssss And Hahahas are what hooked me into the Theater game in the first place, but those audience reactions were always a by-product of seeing a story brought to life on…
Launching a career as a Playwright
One of the things I learned from the Anthem Salgado’s workshop on Blogging was to have a “search-friendly” Blog Post title. Hopefully this will be the first of many posts that will bring more insight on what’s the goings on as I really do launch into this career that I’ve always felt was my calling…
The Batmobile
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…
Standing… Blind writing
What I mean about blind writing is that I began writing this script, Standing Above Pajaro, about two years ago and while I have my notes a out the play on my home computer, which I’m currently away from, I’m rewriting what I have of the script from memory. It’s going pretty well but now…
Trickier Than Wine
I finished the latest draft of Thicker Than Wine in October and I’m going to revisit it since there’s finally another deadline of Dec. 14. I’m a little apprehensive about revising it again for fear of overediting. then again all playwrights have the right to edit their plays when they wish. just don’t want to…
Boys Don’t Bake Cake
Boys Don’t Bake Cake A short play by conrad a. panganiban Version: 2010/09/25 Cast of Characters Malou Gaspar: 23. Female. Karen Gaspar: 21. Female. Kristine’s sister. Malou’s cousin. Kristine Gaspar: 22. Female. Karen’s sister. Malou’s cousin. Justin Basa: 24. Male. Malou’s BFF. Setting Malou’s apartment dining room. Lights up revealing the apartment dining room of…
Stuck (revised 2)
STUCK (DRAFT Version 2. 08/31/2010) CAST OF CHARACTERSPhoenina Toots: Mid to late 20’s. Female. Clown.Huggie Aloni: Mid to late 20’s. Male. Clown. SETTINGChuck E. Cheese. HUGGIE and PHOENINA, dressed in clown outfits are sitting at a table. PHOENINA is sipping from a straw from a paper cup. HUGGIE is looking out of it. A Happy…
Working working working
so my new project is to adapt a short story or poem written by a filipin@-american author into a 20-minute play. i’ve selected the short story “A Portrait of an Aristocrat” from the novel WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE by Tess Uriza Holthe. i’ve been drawn to this story ever since reading this 3 years ago….