NOVELIST / POET / PLAYWRIGHT / LIBRETTIST Pierce is an award-winning director, librettist and dramaturg, with a qualification from NIDA.
Pierce is currently undertaking an MPhil in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland and was recently published in Jacaranda Journal. earth.voice.body, containing The Shape of the Earth, co-written with Jack Symonds, is currently showing at Carriageworks in Sydney.
SELECTED WORKSAS 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
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS‘Heart Engine’, Cordite Poetry Review, vol. 102 (2021)
‘Beneath’, A Thousand Words, Museum of Sydney (online exhibition, 2020)
Shape of the Earth, Resonant Bodies Festival 2018
AS PLAYWRIGHTLunacy, after Algis Budrys, NIDA Digital Theatre Festival, 2020
Great Island, after Pierre de Marivaux, Beside Ourselves Collective, 2015