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General Description of Work: Pippa White's solo work began sixteen years ago with a state arts council. Since then, her one-woman shows have taken her coast to coast (see artist bio). She has programs suitable for all ages, and her school shows fit right into the curriculum.
Audiences seldom realize Pippa's performances are history lessons, but indeed, they are! Pippa wants to call attention to the "story" in hiStory. Personal narratives of Orphan Train Riders, Ellis Island Immigrants, pioneers, homesteaders, reformers, World War II resistance fighters....the stories are riveting and they are true. Audiences often report feeling as if they have seen a full cast production.
Bio: Pippa White is in her sixteenth year as a solo performer. She her One's Company Productions "part theatre, part storytelling, part history". Audiences call them unique, captivating and touching. She has toured to twenty-nine states, including California, New York, Connecticut, Texas, Florida and Alaska. She has performed at colleges, conferences, museums, libraries, festivals and performing arts centers. For eight consecutive years she was featured at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines in their Applause Program, the only artist with this distinction. Other venues include the University of Nebraska, Iowa State Center, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, the University of Colorado Hospital, the Connecticut Hospital Association, SUNY Orange, the Joslyn Art Museum, San Diego State University School of Nursing, the Association for Career and Technical Education, Kansas City Young Audiences and several storytelling festivals. The Director of Special Projects at the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs calls her the "highest quality artist" and the Kansas Storytelling Festival said her performance was "one of the high points in our festival history."
Pippa has a BA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She offers workshops and residencies and has been a teaching artist with the Arts Are Basic Program, (associated with Doane College in Nebraska) and the Nebraska Arts Council for nineteen years. In 2005 and again in 2008, she was the recipient of a $1,000 merit award from the Nebraska Arts Council, and in March, 2007, she received the Artist of the Year Award from the Lincoln-Lancaster Women's Commission. Before doing solo work, she had extensive background in theatre and television on the West Coast, including five years hosting a daily morning television show on ABC in San Francisco.
Services Offered 1: Fourteen one-woman shows,including Voices from Ellis Island, The Story of the Orphan Train, Far As The Eye Can See, Voices from the Resistance, Saints, Soldiers and Spies, Woman's Work, The Extraordinary Ordinary, and more.
Services Offered 2: A musical production which Pippa calls a "cabaret play:" I Can't Give You Anything But Songs, the Life and Work of Dorothy Fields.
Services Offered 3: Workshops and residencies on dialects, vocal delivery, how to find the "story" in "hiStory."
Regions: All Regions
Months available: : All months
Performance fees, mileage charges, related to arts services: : Fees range from $450 to $1,500 plus expenses for all shows except "I Can't Give You Anything But Songs" which costs between $2,000 and $4,000 plus expenses. Expenses refer to mileage and accommodations.
Accessibility accommodations, space requirements, equipment and all other needs that should be met by sponsors: : One's Company Productions work on any size of stage or playing area, though a minimum of 15 feet wide and 10 feet deep is needed (more for "I Can't Give You Anything But Songs"). Warm wash stage center. Amplification in larger halls. (* Piano required for "I Can't Give You Anything But Songs")
