He appeared at the Edinburgh Theatre as Oroonoko, in Thomas Southerne's play of that name; and then joined a minor repertory company, for some years.
[1] Pilon as a playwright has been thought a follower of Richard Cumberland, an associate of the Della Cruscans,[3] and an admirer of Anthony Pasquin.
[4] He wrote the following dramas, mostly ephemeral, all of which were published, besides the pantomime:[1] An unpublished adaptation of All's Well That Ends Well was in three acts, and considered representative of contemporary taste.
[6] Pilon published in 1785 an expanded edition of George Alexander Stevens's Essay on Heads, which Lee Lewis had been performing from 1780.
[9] The Lecture was a popular one-man show, a two-hour performance piece that Stevens had acted as a monologue, with a range of papier-mâché busts and wigs, from 1764.