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 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 as part of a similar programme.

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 has also been adapted for Radio New Zealand.

Pip's work, Up North is programmed for premiere at Centrepoint in June 2010.

Pip also co wrote with father, Roger, Who Needs Sleep Anyway? a musical and comedy revue commissioned for the Plunket Centenary.

Her one-act play Shudder was published by The Play Press in 2003 and is widely produced in high schools throughout New Zealand.

Pip also works extensively in television and film as a writer, story liner, story/script editor, developer, creative producer and actor. She lives with her husband and children in Westmere, Auckland.