Adam Marple
Adam Marple is the Co-Artistic Director of the internationally recognized The Theatre of Others and the co-host of The Theatre of Others Podcast (with over 30,000 listeners in over 96 countries and amongst the top 5% of podcasts worldwide),
Adam has directed over 50 productions and interdisciplinary works Regionally and Off-Broadway in the Americas, Europe, The Middle East/North Africa (MENA), Australia, and South East Asia. He has directed over half of Shakespeare’s canon and frequently adapts classic texts for modern audiences. He has written, devised, or adapted 16 new works. His latest production Bright Light Burning was commissioned by the British Embassy Gulf Strategy fund to perform at the UN COP28 Climate Conference held in Dubai. It performed at the UK Pavilion in the UN Secured Blue Zone, the EXTREME Hangout, Youth Hub, the Main Amphitheater in the public-facing Green Zone, and The Mohammed bin Rashid Library and The Etihad Museum. The Earth Turns- a Climate-Inspired Performance for COP27, a performance and action event, was selected by The Global Stocktake as an official side event performed in the UN-controlled Blue Zone for delegates of the COP27 Climate Conference held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. It was additionally invited to perform for the public in the Peace Pavilion amphitheater of the Green Zone. It was turned into an Audio Play for the opening day of COP28.
He is also the founder of The Sustainable Theatre Network, an organization dedicated to addressing resource management and practices and creating sustainable models for creation without losing aesthetic value. Receiving funds from The British Embassy Gulf Strategy Fund and The British Council Creative Commissions Fund, the Sustainable Theatre Network is an international partnership of over 15 theatre schools and organizations from every continent dedicated to researching, creating, codifying, and amplifying less wasteful theatre practices worldwide for use at all levels of theatre-making, from large State-run National theatres to small student-led projects. Accessible as an Open Source/Creative Commons website (https://www.sustainable-theatre.org) dedicated to sharing best practices in sustainable theatre-making alongside a platform where the theatre schools and organizations from the network each share their research and productions, with performances created for COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt and COP28 in Dubai, UAE.
A frequent interdisciplinary collaborator, he often works with the audio-visual improvisational electronic music duo Black Zenith and the inventors of the Hybrid Piano Serbian composers and pianists LP Duo.
He has been on the faculties of the School of Dance and Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore where he taught in the Acting, Dance, Musical Theatre, and Music programs, he was a Visiting Professor of Theatre at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in Mexico, was Assistant Professor of Directing at American University in Cairo, and is currently Visiting Professor of Devising at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). He has taught and directed internationally at the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, as well as at the Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD)- Serbia, Orvieto Sperimentazione Teatro- Italy, La MaMa Umbria-Italy, Kyoto University of Art and Design-Japan, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Chulalongkorn University- Bangkok, National School of Drama-India, Goldsmiths University of London, The Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne, The American University of Beirut, The University of Tennessee, and Texas A&M. He continues to mentor and teach composition and directing to young theatre-makers around the world from the Yale School of Drama, Accademia Teatro Dimitri, The Juilliard School, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) amongst others in his workshops.
He has been practicing and teaching The Viewpoints for over twenty years having worked with its founders Mary Overlie, Anne Bogart, and Tina Landau. His research centers on the expansion and testing of The Viewpoints as an Interdisciplinary and Transcultural pedagogy. Published: The Viewpoints as Transcultural Pedagogy in Western Theatre in Global Contexts: Directing and Teaching Culturally Inclusive Drama around the World (Routledge) and Applying the Viewpoints to Multimedia Performance (Global Performance Studies)
He holds a B.F.A in Acting from the Professional Actor Training Program at Wright State University, and an M.F.A in Directing from Columbia University in the City of New York
Published Work:
Marple, A. “The Viewpoints as Transcultural Pedagogy.” Western Theatre in Global Contexts: Directing and Teaching Culturally Inclusive Drama around the World. edited by Yassi Jahanmir & Jillian Campana, Abingdon, UK: Routledge Press, 2020, Chapter 8.
Marple, A., et al. “New Narratives for a Healthy Planet: Creative Writing and Art Projects Reveal We Still Have a Chance.” The Lancet Planetary Health, August 2023, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00144-4/fulltext
Marple, A., et al. “Applying 'The Viewpoints' to Multimedia Performance.” Global Performance Studies, 1 July 2020, http://www.gps.psi-web.org/issue-3-2/gps-3-2-2/.
Marple, A. “Does Singapore Theatre Have a Directing Problem.” Arts Equator, 7 May 2019,
https://artsequator.com/does-singapore-theatre-have-a-directing-problem/
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