PIPPA THOROUGHGOOD

Youth Program

“Thoroughgood’s direction keeps the action as confined as the dialogue. It’s taut, agitated, elastic. Constrained in a small, hostile place she keeps the movement tightly controlled, the personal pressure high as the characters confront the implications of a past that is still so real to them.”

– Stage Whispers

BACKGROUND

Pippa (Pip) is a proud Transfem playwright and theatre-maker from regional Australia. She has been creating works since 2017, working primarily as a director and playwright. In 2022 she established ‘All’s One Theatre’ with the aim of exploring the art of adaptation, bringing classic European works to a modern audience.

All’s One premiered with a production of “Ghosts” by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by Pip, to great critical acclaim. Her experience in adaptation consists of many classic theatrical staples, beginning with “A Doll’s House” also by Ibsen and most recently with “the Seagull” by Anton Chekhov.

Her acting credits include; Feste, Twelfth Night (Whale Chorus), Kay/Konstantin, The Seagull (All’s One Theatre), Friend, Poems of a Transsexual Nature (the Trans Theatre Festival, Green Door Theatre). Her first published work was through “Intersection: Dawn”, the 2024 iteration of the Intersection short play festival at the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), it was titled “I Really Like You (or; Pen, Paper, Subway Cookies, Legal Studies and Everything That Conspired For Us To Find Each Other)”.