Meet Roni! She is a senior BFA Theatre Arts Production major focusing on set design. Check out the set she designed for Hofstra’s 67th annual Shakespeare Festival mainstage show As You Like It!
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Name: Roni Sipp
Year: 2016
Hometown: Rochester, NH
Major/Minors: BFA in theater arts, concentration in set design
This is the set she designed for As You Like It!
What are you involved in on campus?
I’m involved in Alpha Psi Omega, the theater honors fraternity, USITT, the technical theater club, and sometimes ultimate Frisbee.
Describe yourself in 3 words.
Witty, bold, generally paint covered
Best class you’ve taken at Hofstra?
Costume history with David Henderson
What’s your favorite book?
I don’t like to pick favorites but probably Lord of the Rings.
Most played song?
Currently my most played song is Stressed Out by twenty-one pilots, but before that it was Waves by The Dear Hunter.
This is a photo of Roni on the set she designed for How I Learned To Drive in Fall 2015!
What’s your strangest talent?
It isn’t strange but my favorite talent is my flawless internal gps. I never get lost.
What is the best concert/show/play you’ve ever been to?
I would give my left kidney to see the Roundabout Theater Company’s Into the Woods again. It was so so good in every single aspect and I saw the very last performance of it. As far as concerts go, I got to see The Wonder Years, Fireworks, and Modern Baseball all in one night and that was fantastic as well.
Have you ever had an interesting celebrity encounter?
When I was working for America’s Got Talent as a PA, Michael BublĂ© was a guest judge and he walked past me back stage and smiled the most beautiful smile, winked at me, and said that I looked lovely.
What is your favorite work of art and what do you love about it?
This is a super hard question. Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists because is work is so textured and you can see the canvas under the clumps of paint which is so beautiful to me. I think one of my all time favorite works of art is My Wife’s Lovers by Carl Kahler. I love it because it’s a painting of at least 35 difference cats which belonged to a woman who had like 350 and the artist spent three years studying the cats so he could get their personalities right. The husband paid for it all and if that isn’t true love I don’t know what is. It’s also a really lovely painting in general.
If you could win a lifetime supply of anything you choose, what would it be?
I would like a lifetime supply of rent/housing money but Cadbury mini eggs are a close second.
Come see the show that she designed the set for! As You Like It by William Shakespeare!Â
Show Times:
Fridays, February 19 and 26 at 8 p.m.
Saturdays, February 20 and 27 at 8 p.m.
Sundays, February 21 and 28 at 2 p.m.
Thursday, February 18 at 7 p.m.
in the Black Box Theater, New Academic Building.