Edward Pierce

Edward Pierce operates a NYC-based design studio specializing in the production design of Broadway, touring, and international stage productions.

Notable Broadway collaborations include: the TONY Award winning scenic design for the hit musicalWicked with Eugene Lee [additional adaptations for both National Tours, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Japan, Germany and Holland, Australia, UK Tour, Korea, Mexico, Universal Studios Japan]; national and international creative and design supervision for Billy Elliot; design supervision for the Best Musical Revival of Pippin; the scenic design for 9 to 5 – The Musical; the scenic design for Boublil & Schonberg’s The Pirate Queen; Chaplin; Glengarry Glen Ross; Dead Accounts; The Homecoming; Youore Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush; the TONY Award winning lighting design for Disney’s Aida; the lighting design for Ragtime with Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (TONY nomination); the lighting design for Cabaret (TONY nomination); the designs for Bring in ‘da Noise / Bring in ‘da Funk and The Tempest.

Select designs include: Broadway scenic design for The Other Place (MTC); lighting design for the recent Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire; the Broadway presentation of Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It; the national tour of The Gazillion Bubble Show; Pope Benedict XVI Pastoral Visit to New York – the Mass at Yankee Stadium; lighting designs for The Long Red Road(Goodman Theatre, dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman), The Lark A Number with Sam Shepard (NYTW), and Hughie with Brian Dennehy (Trinity Rep); Tell Me on a Sunday with Alice Ripley (Kennedy Center); The Who’s Tommy (national tour).

Edward represents designers as a trustee on the Executive Board of the United Scenic Artists Local 829 Union and supports the industry as a member on the Advisory Board of the American Theatre Wing. Edward balances his professional life with the joy of raising three children with his wife in New Jersey.

Bio as of August, 2013.