The Pied Pipers were a huge part of my time in college. We would travel all over the country and even to Scotland to perform improvisational theatre for children in pre-school up to 6th grade. I was fortunate enough to have been a member from when I showed up as a freshman till when I graduated as a second year senior. Five years in total, two of those were also spent as an administrative aide providing anything from show announcements to COVID-19 updates. 

During this time, we did not have much of a plan other than to keep those interested in Piper shows knowledgeable about when and where our shows were happening. This was paramount as our organization was largely run on donations that came from people seeing our shows and then asking us to come to their school. Even this plan, simple as it was, would be wrecked as that spring would bring the first wave of COVID-19 and keep my college from meeting in person. This would keep Pied Piper shows from happening for almost a full year. During that time, we needed to keep our audience interested in the Pied Pipers without having shows. So we recorded ourselves doing stories and songs and posted those instead while dealing with the emergency posts dealing with the ever changing nature of the pandemic.