Greg Pierce

Greg Pierce writes plays and fiction. He grew up in Shelburne, Vermont and now lives in New York City. His play Slowgirl will premiere at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater this June, and will be directed by Anne Kauffman. The Landing, a musical written with composer John Kander, will be the Vineyard Theatre's lab production this May. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, co-written with director Stephen Earnhart, based on the novel by Haruki Murakami, premiered at The King's Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, 2011. His stories have appeared in literary magazines such as New England Review, Avery, Berkeley Fiction Review, Confrontation, and Conjunctions. He has received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, The Djerassi Institute, the New York Public Library, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. His work has been produced/developed with Naked Angels, The New Group, The Public Theater's Under the Radar festival, the Vineyard Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Asia Society, the Rattlestick Theater, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, 3-Legged Dog, Out North/Anchorage, and others. For years, he wrote and performed with a theater group called The Bad Astronauts. His verses to accompany Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals (written with Brian Hargrove) were performed at the Hollywood Bowl with the L.A. Philharmonic. He's recently been commissioned (along with composer Gregory Spears) to write an opera based on Thomas Mallon's novel Fellow Travelers, to be directed by Kevin Newbury. He likes Swedish food — especially Jansson's Temptation. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His work is represented by William Morris Endeavor (Scott Chaloff for plays; Claudia Ballard for fiction). He hikes some.