Arts Facilitation

I am passionate about using the arts to explore social issues and make change. I enjoy creating and delivering drama workshops on a range of subjects for different community groups.

This includes drama & ESOL, movement, creative writing, gender roles, healthy relationships, drag and persona, LGBTQ+ history, creative wellbeing and mental health, anti-immigration raids, theatre of the oppressed, poetry and protest.

I specialise in creating workshops for young people, migrant, neurodivergent and LGBTQAI+/Queer communities.

Previous Roles and Projects Include

Workshop Facilitator

I delivered creative projects in West London.
This included performance & protest workshops with college students and local women’s migrant groups exploring protest, poetry and movement.
I also designed creative writing and script writing workshops for Years 4 & 5.
Project Co-Director

I oversee the creative and artistic planning, development, and running of Futures, a weekly drama group for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people and ESOL learners in Croydon.
Creative Spaces Associate Artist

I delivered a 10-week creative programme to Clean Break members (women who have experience of the criminal justice system) to explore performance skills such as writing, improv, acting and devising leading to a shared performance.
Assistant "24" Play

I supported Cardboard Citizens members (people at risk of homelessness) in the devising and rehearsal of the community play “24” at the Almeida Theatre.
Community Outreach Coordinator

I developed & implemented outreach strategies to engage local communities in Canterbury. I also planned and delivered radio drama workshops to schools and over 60’s groups.
Assistant Director

I Assistant Directed an 8-week programme of workshops with refugee women to explore drama, music, and film, cultivating in a final performance and film shared at Opera Holland Park.
Assistant Workshop Leader

I support the lead facilitators to run a variety of community puppetry programmes in schools and local spaces in Islington.
Learning and Participation Facilitator

I delivered community arts workshops to primary & secondary school students and local womens’ groups in Newham.
Workshop Leader

I delivered community arts workshops to primary & secondary school students and local women’s groups in Newham.
Dementia Ward Student Knowledge Exchange

In collaboration with CSSD, I co-facilitated weekly digital workshops for patients living with dementia in multiple London hospitals. I created bespoke audio artefacts such as podcasts, songs, and oral history.
Associate Artist

I facilitate workshops on LGBTQ+ History Month art history, Drama & Creative Wellbeing, and Sexual Harassment & Cyberbullying for secondary school students in South-East London.
Reboot The Roots Programme Co-Facilitator

I co-facilitated a week-long residential Theatre of the Oppressed training for activists at the Ulex project in Cataluña, Spain.
Fearless Futures Trailblazer

I delivered 8-12 week programmes in secondary schools on inequality, leadership, and feminism. I engaged the young people to think critically about power, intersectionality and gender roles, creating their own art-activism and becoming trailblazers in their schools.

Other Project Partners and Bespoke Workshops

Testimonials

"I felt encouraged to take risks in a way I hadn’t before"

Workshop Participant, 2021
"In Autumn 2021, Pippa co-lead a digital arts in health project working alongside clinical dementia and applied theatre specialist staff to deliver a series of person-centred creative workshops across Medicine for the Elderly wards with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Pippa demonstrated excellence in her approach to building trust and rapport with patients, and put into practice her Tier 2 dementia training within her creative interventions. Pippa was a highly valued member of the team creating beautiful bespoke artifacts for patients celebrating the stories they shared in her workshops which were consistently received with excitement."

Dr Nicola Abrahams, Lecturer of Applied Theatre at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
"Pippa [at Bechdel Theatre] creates really engaging workshops which allow students to explore ideas around gender and identity. The exercises are imaginative and suitably challenging. Her skills as a facilitator allowed students to reflect on their work and practice through open and reflective discussions"

Lee, Florida State University (London Theatre Academy)