Pier Lorenzo Pisano is a director and writer for the cinema, theatre and narrative works.
He graduated in directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Roma (the National Cinema School). He made his debut as a film director with the short Così in terra, presented at the 71st Cannes Festival and officially selected for the Nastro d’Argento, nominated for a Golden Globe and selected at more than fifty international festivals. The following year his second short Antiorario was produced and presented by the 72nd Festival of Locarno, while for the theatre he directed the Italian staging of Per il tuo bene and held the role of residential playwright at the New York Theatre Workshop and the Royal Court Theatre (London) for the development of his next work. He is part of the projects Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe, Playstorm (Teatro Stabile of Turin), Between Lands (Emilia Romagna Teatro Foundation). His works have been translated into twelve languages and his work has been presented as part of the programme for the 72nd Avignon Festival, in the Forum des Nouvelles Écritures Dramatiques Européennes. He is the recipient of the most important Italian awards for new playwriting and dramaturgy, including the Solinas Award, the Riccione - Tondelli Award, and the Hystrio Award. This year will see the publishing of his first novel Il buio non fa paura.