Bill is an associate professor of scenic and lighting design at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. He is an award-winning designer who has centered out of the Baltimore-Washington area for the past thirty-five years. In the past twenty-eight seasons he has served as a resident designer for Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (SSMT). In addition to SSMT, Peirson has freelanced for several other professional theatres including Olney Theatre in Olney, Maryland; Short North Stage in Columbus, Ohio; Maryland Arts Festival in Towson Maryland; the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in Normal, Illinois and the Lexington Children’s Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky.