ABOUT

Edward Pierce

EDWARD PIERCE IS A TONY® AWARD WINNING DESIGNER AND OPERATES A NYC-BASED DESIGN STUDIO SPECIALIZING IN THE PRODUCTION DESIGN OF BROADWAY, TOURING, AND INTERNATIONAL LIVE STAGE PRODUCTIONS.

Notable productions include: the Special TONY® Award recipient for the Broadway production of Stranger Things - The First Shadow; the TONY® Award nominated scenic design for the revival of Angels in America; the TONY® Award winning scenic design for the hit musical Wicked with Eugene Lee [all Worldwide productions]; international design adaptation and supervision for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera – World Tour and Love Never Dies; international design adaptation and supervision for To Kill A Mockingbird; international design adaptation and supervision for Billy Elliot.

Broadway scenic designs for Amazing Grace, Holler If Ya Hear Me, and The Other Place; lighting design for the Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire; Alice By Heart (Off-Broadway); NBC’s variety show Maya & Marty; the Broadway presentation of Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It; Universal Kid’s Emmy-nominated daytime series Sprout House; the national tour of The Gazillion Bubble Show; Pope Benedict XVI Pastoral Visit to New York – the Mass at Yankee Stadium; NBC’s Primetime Upfronts at Radio City Music Hall; designs at the McCarter Theater for Bathing in Moonlight, Piano Lesson, Baby Doll, Five Mile Lake, and Antony & Cleopatra; The Long Red Road (Goodman Theatre), The Lark (Stratford Festival), Hughie with Brian Dennehy; and Tell Me on a Sunday (Kennedy Center).

Design supervision for the recent Best Play Revival of Death of A Salesman; the Best Musical Broadway Revival of Pippin; the Broadway scenic design for 9 to 5 – The Musical; the Broadway scenic design for Boublil & Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen; Bright Star; Chaplin; Glengarry Glen Ross; Dead Accounts; The Homecoming; You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush; the TONY® Award winning lighting design for Disney’s Aida; the lighting design for Ragtime (TONY® nomination); the lighting design for Cabaret (TONY® nomination); the designs for Bring in ‘da Noise / Bring in ‘da Funk and The Tempest.

Edward represents designers as the President of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE and supports the industry as a member on the Tony Award Administration Committee.  Edward balances his professional life with the joy of raising three children with his wife in New Jersey.

ASSOCIATIONS:

Represents designers as the President and Pension Fund Trustee for United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE.

Supports the industry as a member on the Advisory Board of the American Theatre Wing and as a member of the TONY Award Administration committee.

Edward’s profile at the Internet Broadway Database.

Edward’s profile at Playbill.com