Who is Lance Pierson?

Lance Pierson has been acting for well over 50 years (since he was 6!). He grew up in Highgate in North London and went to Oxford University to read English and Theology. He became a teacher and worked for Scripture Union as an organiser of drama productions, holidays and magazines in Schools. From 1978 he worked freelance as an actor, writer, speaker and trainer. Then in 1998 he went full time as a performer using his talents to entertain.

His one-man shows were initially his staple and churches were his main audience. Rather than give a talk, he blends sketches, monologues, poems and stories into entertainments that manage to be humorous, moving and challenging all at the same time. However as time passed he found he could use this format for other things he was interested in. As a life-long fan of both Poetry and Cricket he turned his hand to creating entertainments for both these worlds.

His cricket entertainments celebrate the wonderful literature which the game has spawned and have thrilled Cricket enthusiasts up and down the country. His poetry shows have served two purposes; light hearted shows have entertained groups of all sizes while his serious presentations on individual poets have taken him to many arts and literary festivals.

To keep meeting the demand for his services Lance created another show to celebrate the Music Hall performers who didn’t sing, began leading guided poetry walks and started performing parts of the Bible, including Mark’s Gospel at one sitting!

In the last ten years Lance has performed poems, Bible passages and one-man shows at venues all across the country and even on the continent. These include the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Oval Cricket Ground, St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Spring Harvest, the British Music Hall Society, the Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.