ABOUT

Pippa Mackie is an award-winning playwright, actor, producer, and director of feisty and satirical theatre. Pippa has worked as an actor with the Arts Club Theatre Company, Gateway Theatre, Belfry Theatre, Pi Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, Delinquent Theatre, Greenthumb Theatre, Theatre Replacement, and many more. Pippa originated the role of ‘Leap’ in Rumble Theatre’s ‘The Society of the Destitute presents: Titus Bouffonius’ written by Colleen Murphy, which earned her and the ensemble a Jessie Richardson award for ‘Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble’. She recently played the title role of Pinocchio in Theatre Replacement’s East Van Panto production of PINOCCHIO by Marcus Youssef with music by Veda Hille and directed by Stephen Drover. She was also the Vancouver Sun’s and the Georgia Straight’s ‘Artist to Watch’. A select number of her film/tv credits include Supernatural (CW), Van Helsing (Sci-Fi), Hell on Wheels (AMC), Roadies (Showtime), and supporting lead roles in feature films #Roxy and Christmas Solo. In 2019 Pippa was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award ‘Best Performance in a Feature’ for her role as ‘Bronwyn’ in Feature Film #Roxy (now available on US Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more.)

As a playwright, Pippa works primarily in the style of satire; addressing current social and environmental issues, with an absurdist and comedic twist. Her work has been performed on stages and at festivals across North America. Six of her one-act plays have been produced and performed as part of Speakeasy Theatre’s Pull Festival including her dark comedy Deer Harper. Deer Harper was also part of the 2017 Shift Festival in Vancouver and has since been published in the Pull Festival Anthology. Her latest one-act play Starman, which was originally commissioned and produced as part of Upintheair Theatre’s The Array, was adapted into an audio drama as part of Sound the Alarm Theatre’s podcast series in the fall of 2021 and received 3 Berlin Film Haus nominations including Best Scriptwriting and Best Podcast. Her latest comedy Hurricane Mona, was written as part of the Arts Club Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Unit and has since been awarded Touchstone Theatre’s David King Prize. Pippa was also invited to attend the 50th Banff Playwrights Lab, with Hurricane Mona.

Pippa often works in collaboration, having co-created, produced and performed three plays which have all toured festivals across Canada. She co-wrote, performed in, and produced The Progressive Polygamists (with Emmelia Gordon) which has been mounted across Canada over 100 times, had a professional production at the Firehall Arts Centre, won 3 Pick of the Fringe Awards and was part of the 2015 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Industry: The Food Must Go Out (co-written with Nik Bunting and Lauren Jackson) which won the Vancouver Fringe Festival Award for Innovation in 2014. In 2019, she co-wrote Juliet: A Revenge Comedy with Monster Theatre’s Ryan Gladstone, which continues to tour across Canada and earned 5 Jessie Richardson Nominations including Oustanding New Script and Best Production ( with 1 win for Outstanding Actor in Supporting Role - Carly Pokoradi).

Upcoming: Pippa is working with award-winning UK playwright Kit Redstone on their new show currently titled The Fucking Garden.

Fictional mockumentary podcast Philippa Po: Changing Minds co-written with Ryan Gladstone with Sound the Alarm Theatre.

She has also created and produced a number of cabaret-style performances including Lost Words, an event series focused on banned, censored, and contentious artistic works, co-curated with Jeff Gladstone and produced with Pi Theatre. Pitch, Bitch, or Ditch was co-created with Kim Sǝnklip Harvey and produced as part of the 2019 Femme Series at the Cultch.

Pippa’s directing credits include: After Party Theatre’s Lady Parts (rEvolver Festival ‘19; Pi Theatre; National Arts Centre Canada Performs Series), ‘Clio: A Giant Clitoris Puppet Learning To Love Herself (Puppets Not Patriarchy, Art of Loving).

She is the former Artistic Associate with Pi Theatre, former Producer with Upintheair Theatre and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Acting Program. She was a playwright with the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Emerging Playwrights Unit 2019/20, alumnus of the Wet Ink Collective, and she is a member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada.

She currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.