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Piers is Artistic Director of Ransack Theatre
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He trained on the National Theatre Directors' Course and was Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre
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He is the winner of the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award and was shortlisted for the Papatango Prize for Playwriting
Directing
BREATHING SPACE
by Tim Foley
National Theatre Studio - 2023
The Lowry - 2023 / 24
(In development)
PETER PAN AND THE BATTLE FOR NEVERLAND
by Kieran Lynn
Ruined Theatre - 2023
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
by Jack Thorne
ArtsEd - 2023
GET HAPPY
by Joseph Aldous
Pleasance, Islington - 2023
A MONSTER CALLS
by Sally Cookson and Adam Peck
LAMDA - 2022
TAPPED
by Katie Redford
National Tour - 2023
Theatre503 - 2022
JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS
by Tom Wells
LAMDA - 2021
CATCHING COMETS
by Piers Black
National Tour - 2022
Pleasance, Islington / Theatr Clwyd / Royal Exchange - 2021
Pleasance, Edinburgh - 2019
CROPS
by Tim Foley
The Yard - Live Drafts - 2018
LOVE & MONEY
by Dennis Kelly
Academy of Live and Recorded Art - 2017
MINUS TOUCH
by Ransack Theatre
Royal Exchange Theatre - Co:lab Festival - 2017
MOTH
by Declan Greene
Hope Mill Theatre - 2017
SLINGSHOT
by Joe Ward Munrow
Islington Mill - 2016
COME CLOSER
by Ella Greenhill / Dom Grace
Royal Exchange Theatre -Â 2015
THE DUMB WAITER
by Harold Pinter
Site-specific - HOME / NSDF / Lucy Davis Vaults - 2014-15
Associate / Assistant
LIGHT FALLS
by Simon Stephens
Dir. Sarah Frankcom
Royal Exchange Theatre - 2019
STORIES
by Nina Raine
Dir. Nina Raine
National Theatre - 2018
THE WRITER
by Ella Hickson
Dir. Blanche McIntyre
Almeida Theatre - 2018
CITY OF GLASS
by Duncan Macmillan
Dir. Leo Warner
Lyric Hammersmith / HOME - 2017
SO HERE WE ARE
by Luke Norris
Dir. Steven Atkinson
HighTide Festival / Royal Exchange Theatre - 2015
YEN
by Anna Jordan
Dir. Ned Bennett
Royal Exchange Theatre - 2015
Writing
MY DAD HUNTS BEARS
Dir. Raz Shaw
Papatango - Recorded reading - 2023
HANSEL AND GRETAL
Dir. Nancy Sullivan
Ruined Theatre - 2023
CATCHING COMETS
Dir. Piers Black
National Tour - 2022
Pleasance, Islington / Theatr Clwyd / Royal Exchange - 2021
Pleasance, Edinburgh - 2019
HUMAN RESOURCES
Prod. Nadia Molinari
BBC Radio 4 - 2017
ENVELOPED IN VELVET
Dir. Cat Robey
Site-specific - Arts Theatre, West End / BasicSpace Festival / The Lowry - 2015-16
THE LEFT BEHINDS
Dir. Charlie Mortimor
Dir. Holly Mazur
Octagon Theatre Bolton - Rehearsed reading - 2015
Royal Exchange Theatre - Young Company - 2014
PAPER SHIELD
Dir. George Chilcott
HighTide - Rehearsed reading - 2014
BOX
Dir. Brianna Edge
24:7 Festival - Rehearsed reading - 2014
TARGET
Dir. Justin Audibert
Kiln Theatre - Short - 2013