Pier Lorenzo Pisano
Biography:
Pier Lorenzo Pisano is a director and author of cinema, theatre and novels. He graduated as a film director at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National Film School, Italy). His debut short film Così in terra (As It Is On Earth) was selected in competition at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and more than fifty other international festivals. The following year his second short film Antiorario (Anticlockwise) was produced and presented at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival. Meanwhile he was author in residence at the New York Theater Workshop and at the Royal Court Theatre in London. His plays are translated into twelve languages and his work has been programmed at the Avignon Festival and at FIBA (Buenos Aires). He is the recipient of prestigious Italian awards for new writing, including the Riccione Award, the Solinas Award, the Tondelli Award and the Hystrio Award. He published Il buio non fa paura (The Dark Isn’t Scary), Carbonio (Carbon), Per il tuo bene, Semidei (For Your Own Good, Demigods). He is an associate artist of Piccolo Theatre in Milan.
PIP Credits: Playwright - Carbon
