Xavier Pierce

lighting designer

Xavier Pierce (lighting designer). Pierce’s credits include Shakespeare in Love (Oregon Shakespeare Festival Festival, dir. Christopher Moore), Smart People (Arena Stage, dir. Seema Sueko), Harvey (The Guthrie, dir. Libby Appel), Fences (Long Wharf/McCarter Theatre co-production, dir. Phylicia Rashad), Fly (Florida Studio Theatre/Handy Award for Best Lighting), Two Trains Running (Two River Theatre, dir. Ruben Santiago-Hudson), A Raisin in the Sun (Westport Country Playhouse, dir. Phylicia Rashad), Common Enemy (Triad Stage, dir. Preston Lane), The Piano Lesson (Olney Theatre Center, dir. Jamil Jude), Two Trains Running (The Arden, dir. Raelle Myrick Hodges), and 4,000 Miles, Peter and the Starcatcher, and The Mountaintop (PlayMakers Rep). Upcoming: Native Gardens (The Guthrie and Arena Stage , dir. Blake Robison), Blithe Spirit (The Guthrie, dir. David Ivers), Othello (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, dir. Bill Rauch). Pierce is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts (MFA in design for stage and film).