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Piers is Artistic Director of Ransack Theatre
He trained on the National Theatre Directors' Course and was Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre
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 - 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