Pip has worked as a full time writer since 1995, after graduating from the University of Otago with a degree in Drama. Pip's early theatre writing began at Allen Hall theatre and followed with two commissions from Young & Hungry Youth Theatre company. Her play Red Fish, Blue Fish was selected as part of the Silo New Works Programme and then played at Circa.

Two of Pip's major works - The Woman Who Loved a Mountain and The 53rd Victim were both developed through the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts Show and Tell programme in 2006 and 2008. The 53rd Victim then went onto win the New New Zealand Play Award in 2009, selected out of over 70 scripts.  It was also a finalist in the inaugural New Zealand Writers Guild awards in 2010.

The 53^rd Victim was commissioned to be adapted for Radio New Zealand and was a finalist in 2011 in the drama section of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

Pip's most recently staged work, Up North premiered at Centrepoint in June 2010.

Pip’s recent play Ache won the 2012 Pumphouse Theatre Award for an Auckland Playwright as part of the Adam’s Award and was workshopped in July 2012.  It had a reading at the Court this year as part of their mid winter season. Pip also co wrote with father, Roger, Who Needs Sleep Anyway? a musical and comedy revue commissioned for the Plunket Centenary which played in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. 

Her one-act play Shudder was published by The Play Press in 2003 and is widely produced in high schools throughout New Zealand. Last year, her work Queen B was published by Playmarket Press as part of an anthology of Young and Hungry plays. 

In 2009 she won the Bruce Mason award, New Zealand’s most prestigious playwriting award. 

Pip is also a script advisor and works extensively with other playwrights to help develop their work.  Pip works extensively in television as a writer, story liner, story/script editor, developer, creative producer and actor. 

She is also co creator and co producer of the Wet Hot Beauties, a contemporary water ballet company.  Wet Hot Beauties has been running for the past four years and has developed a major following  – the community sits around 250 people.  In 2011 Sirens, the Wet Hot Beauties first major show, sold out before it opened and was both a critical and commercial success.  It also won Audience Choice Award in the Fringe Festival awards.  2013 saw ‘Swan Song’ build on this success and was another critical and commercial sold out success, taking out the Audience Choice award for the second time in a row.  Pip is also one of the 80 + performers with the group.

She has recently been part of the TED Global Talent Search, speaking on the WHBs and TEDxAuckland.

She is the current President of the New Zealand Writers Guild.