DRAMATURG / CREATOR / LIBRETTIST / PLAYWRIGHT / ACTOR / PERFORMERPierce is an award-winning director, librettist and dramaturg, with a qualification from NIDA.
earth.voice.body, containing The Shape of the Earth (co-written with Jack Symonds) is currently showing Carriageworks in Sydney. It is staged by Sydney Chamber Opera, with whom Pierce is an Associate Artist.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, AWARDS AND SELECTED WORKSPOSITIONS HELDAssociate Artist, Sydney Chamber Opera,
2014 - present
Artistic Director, Crack Theatre Festival,
2017 - 2020
Lecturer (Theatre History & Collaborative
Theatre-making), National Institute of Dramatic Art, 2017 - 2020
Affiliate Director, Griffin Theatre Company, 2013
AWARDS & GRANTSNominee: Art Music Award for Work of the Year: Dramatic. Awarded by APRA AMCOS, 2022
Nominee: Art Music Award for Work of the Year: Dramatic. Awarded by APRA AMCOS, 2021
Art Music Award for Work of the Year: Dramatic. Awarded by APRA AMCOS, 2020
Nominee: Helpmann Award for Best Opera. Awarded by Live Performance Australia, 2016
Nominee: Fringe World Theatre Award. Awarded by Perth Fringe World, 2016
AS LIBRETTISTVictory over the Sun, after Aleksei Kruchonykh, National Gallery of Australia 2022 / Biennale of Sydney 2016, also director
Fumeblind Oracle, Sydney Festival 2021 Her Dark Marauder, Breaking Glass Festival 2020
Oscar & Lucinda, adapted from the novel by Peter Carey, Sydney Chamber Opera, 2019 Shape of the Earth, Resonant Bodies Festival 2018
Inside Mr Enderby, adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess, Manchester Collective 2017
Fly Away Peter, adapted from the novel by David Malouf, Melbourne Festival 2016
Notes from Underground, adapted from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cell Block Theatre 2011 / Carriageworks 2016
AS CO-CREATOR/PERFORMERThey’ve Already Won, Belvoir/national tour, 2015-17. Co-created with Harriet Gillies
Wakefield: LIVE, Sekrit Projekt, 2017. Co-created with the company
Only You Can Save Us, Sekrit Projekt, 2014-15. Co-created with the company
AS ACTORGloria by Benedict Andrews. Directed by Lee Lewis. Griffin Theatre Company, 2016
AS PLAYWRIGHTLunacy, after Algis Budrys, NIDA Digital Theatre Festival, 2020
Great Island, after Pierre de Marivaux, Beside Ourselves Collective, 2015
