Pippa Frith
Producer
Pippa Frith is an Independent Producer based in Birmingham. She works with artists to create art that aims to surprise and delight audiences nationally and internationally. She is passionate about working in the regions to create new work of high quality, showcase new voices and grow new audiences. Her primary background is theatre, although she also has experience of Spoken Word Outdoor Circus work, Visual Arts / Performance Crossover and cross-media projects.
She is the long-term producer for celebrated solo artist Francesca Millican-Slater (Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs, supported by mac birmingham; The Forensics of a Flat, in association with Birmingham REP; My Dearest Girls, commissioned by Shropshire Archives and Arts Alive, GOLD, commissioned by the New Vic Theatre). She co-produced Unknown Male, by Stephanie Ridings with Birmingham REP in January 2015, winning the Peter Brook / Mark Marvin Award for the project.
She was Co-Producer of Our Fathers (Babakas, commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre, mac birmingham and China Plate), supporting the work through two national tours, a number of international dates and a critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe run (2013). She is also Co-Director of well-loved work-in-progress platform PILOT Nights.
She is a visiting lecturer at The University of Birmingham and Birmingham School of Acting and regularly mentors emerging producers and young artists and companies. Before developing her producing portfolio Pippa worked as Project Manager for Women & Theatre (Birmingham), as a Programmer at the Drum Arts Centre; was Project Manager of The Decibel Performing Arts Showcase 2007 and for Fierce Earth, working on a range of projects included Fierce! Festival. She studied Contemporary Arts, majoring in Theatre and Live Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.
