Xavier Pierce’s Professional Lighting Design credits include: White Noise
(The Public Theater); How to Catch Creation, Othello, Shakespeare in
Love (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Native Gardens, Harvey, Blithe Spirit (Guthrie Theater);
Camp David (Alley Theatre) 4 Woman (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Smart People, Native
Gardens (Arena Stage); The Roommate (Steppenwolf); Pride and Prejudice, Angels in America
Part 1 & 2 ( St . Louis Rep); Fun Home, How to Catch Creation (Baltimore Center Stage); Little
Girl Blue (George Street Playhouse); Yours Unfaithfully, A Day by the Sea (Mint Theatre NYC);
Misery (Cincinnati Playhouse); Noises Off (Syracuse Stage); Fences (Long Wharf Theatre,
McCarter Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, The Mountaintop, Detroit ’67
(PlayMakers Repertory Company); My General Tubman, Two Trains Running (Arden Theatre);
Outside Mulingar (Arizona Theatre Company); The Piano Lesson (Olney Theatre Center);
Othello (A.R.T.); Fly (Florida Studio Theatre); Common Enemy, Red (Triad Stage); A Raisin in the
Sun, Thousand Pines (Westport Country Playhouse); Two Trains Running (Two River Theater
Company); Everybody, The Glass Menagerie, Black Odyssey, Fences (California Shakespeare
Theater); Hamlet, Pippin (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); Pipeline, A Wonderful Life , Tuesdays
with Morrie (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Hypeman, The FRE (The Flea). Xavier lit Urban Bush
Woman Dance Theatre’s Hair and Other Stories. Currently, Xavier Is lighting , American Prophet
directed by Charles Randolph Wright at Arena Stage ,Fat Ham directed by Morgan Greene at
The Wilma Theatre.
Currently, Xavier is the Artist In Residence at Carolina Coastal University where he teaches
Lighting Design and Theatrical Entrepeneurship. Xavier also taught Lighting Design at
University of Illinois as an assistant professor. Xavier mentored at Lehman College, City
University of New York. He holds an MFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
You can get to know Xavier a little more by reading these interviews:
https://www.livedesignonline.com/theatre/by-design-xavier-pierce-lights-white-noise
Xavier Pierce
Xavier Pierce
