becoming a playwright has been 13 years in the making for me. i started writing in 1994 when i wrote a script for the filipino club i was associated with. “ang palengke” started out of a very visual dream i had. i saw all these characters who worked in a marketplace in the philippines and…
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.
theater…
the more and more i’m getting into this journey and realization that i need to be a playwright, the more and more i’m falling in love with the theater. i just love to be around it and thinking about it. i love watching plays and musicals. i love being around other people who love theater….
Take Me Or Leave Me… Scene
This is a exercise on taking a monologue from a musical and remixing it as dialogue between two people. =================== Take Me Or Leave MeAdaptation from Jonathan Larson’s RENT MAUREENJoanne, what’s wrong? I didn’t stay and dance at the Clit Club last night, ’cause you wanted to go home… JOANNEYou were flirting with the woman…
52 Cents
52 Centsby conrad panganiban Raining. Market and 6th Street in San Francisco. THEOLONIUS is on the street corner with a box of broken umbrellas. THEOLONIUS52 cents. 52 cents! Stay dry for 52 cents! Enter MAXIM as he tries to take cover from the rain holding a Wall Street Journal over his head, talking on his…
Workshop
Well I just got back from the workshop with the playwright above – Philip Kan Gotanda. This was one of the best workshops I’ve had and this is without any writing! We got to basically pick his brain about how to write a play. One homework assignment was to write a 30-page play and we’ll…
new AATC Workshops
I knew it was a bad idea to move to an office that’s overlooking the bay! it’s friday and i’m looking out the window at sailboats that float by. yeah, i’m rubbing it in! kidding lang. i’m just not in the best of moods to work, especially on a project that needs to be done…
writing
as you can see in the previous post, i FINALLY finished Room 812. I started writing this scene 2 years ago. i got side tracked with BORDERS and A DANCE… it’s funny cuz i remembered talking about this play with Jeannie while driving her back to her place in Marin. I asked her one bit…
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
Just got home to wind down and check in with you about two plays that i’ve just seen. last night was watching the Suicide Kings Trio’s “In Spite of Everything” and tonite’s “Representa” which played at La Pena in Berkeley.“In Spite of Everything”It’s a theater piece that combines spoken word and interweaving personal stories of…
Bio
USA wanted a new bio, so here’s mine: Conrad A. PanganibanConrad has been active in the Arts for the last 20 years. Beginning with Music, he has played the trumpet in front of a sold out stadium with the UC, Berkeley Bear Band, with the Northern California Youth Symphony in Stockton, CA, and the Monterery…
A Poem for Lola
I’m off to the library to work on my play again, but before i go, I wanted to put this up. I never knew both of my Grandmothers but I felt compelled to write this based on the events of last week. This is a shorter version because I didn’t weigh down LISA’s dialogue and…