Pippa White
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
NE, USPippa White turned to solo performing and speaking in 1994. Previously she had an extensive career in theatre and television on the West Coast, including five years hosting a daily morning television show on ABC in San Francisco.
She calls her One's Company Productions "part theatre, part storytelling, part history." Audiences call them unique, captivating, and touching. To date she has crisscrossed the country many times touring to over thirty states, including California, New York, Connecticut, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Washington and Alaska. She has performed at universities and colleges, performing arts centers, museums, libraries, businesses and schools. Conferences often use her unusual performance pieces to feature her as a keynote speaker.
Pippa has been featured at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines in their Applause Program many times. Other venues and organizations include the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Iowa State Center, the Connecticut Hospital Association, SUNY Orange, San Diego State University School of Nursing, the University of Nebraska, Metropolitan State University-St. Paul, Miami Children's Hospital, the Association for Career and Technical Development, and several theatres and storytelling festivals.
An audience member recently captured the gist of Pippa's unique presentations when he said, "Her performances are entertainment wrapped in history intertwined with inspiration."
Pippa White turned to solo performing and speaking in 1994. Previously she had an extensive career in theatre and television on the West Coast, including five years hosting a daily morning television show on ABC in San Francisco.
She calls her One's Company Productions "part theatre, part storytelling, part history." Audiences call them unique, captivating, and touching. To date she has crisscrossed the country many times touring to over thirty states, including California, New York, Connecticut, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Washington and Alaska. She has performed at universities and colleges, performing arts centers, museums, libraries, businesses and schools. Conferences often use her unusual performance pieces to feature her as a keynote speaker.
Pippa has been featured at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines in their Applause Program many times. Other venues and organizations include the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Iowa State Center, the Connecticut Hospital Association, SUNY Orange, San Diego State University School of Nursing, the University of Nebraska, Metropolitan State University-St. Paul, Miami Children's Hospital, the Association for Career and Technical Development, and several theatres and storytelling festivals.
An audience member recently captured the gist of Pippa's unique presentations when he said, "Her performances are entertainment wrapped in history intertwined with inspiration."
Into Possession Of Myself
People called them Angels of Mercy, but they were really so much more. Using diaries, letters and memoirs, this performance piece by Pippa White chronicles the lives of three remarkable women, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix. Their enormous contributions to health care, not just in their own countries, but worldwide, are presented in a dramatic format, that looks at these lives from the beginnings of their work to the end. Into Possession of Myself...
Women Who Changed The World
In this engaging presentation watch as Pippa White celebrates the brave women who broke barriers, questioned the status quo, and fought to better conditions for everyone, everywhere. These are reformers who championed the oppressed, improved healthcare and education, ended child labor, helped the poor and the immigrant, and gave a voice to the voiceless. Some you will know. Some had a lower profile. But all of them will surprise and inspire.
Voices From Ellis Island
Voices from Ellis Island follows seven immigrants from different parts of Europe and Russia as they cross the Atlantic Ocean and confront unexpected challenges at “the front door to freedom,” Ellis Island. From 1892 to 1930, Ellis Island was the first experience of life in America for millions of immigrants. Based on diaries, letters, and memoirs, the stories in this performance piece are amusing, frightening, inspiring and true.
The Story Of The Orphan Train
How many were there? At least 200,000, but maybe as many as 500,000. Fending for themselves on the streets of New York, homeless children were given a chance at a new life in America’s heartland by the “placing out” system, the first foster care program in the United States. Riding the orphan train was part of that great American experiment. Using memoirs, letters, and interviews, Pippa White brings to life orphans who remember the experience and share a heartrending and...
