Adam Marple is a director and designer whose work centers on the audience experience. His performance spaces are a centralizing event for communities to form and for empathy to be spread.

Adam Marple is the Founder and Moderator of The Board of Directors and The Board of Directors Podcast, a global constellation of theatre directors dedicated to building community, sharing knowledge, and transforming the role of the director in the 21st century; and is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Sustainable Theatre Project, dedicated to delivering sustainably made theatre in non-traditional spaces to encourage the reinvestigation and importance of human stories in the global effort to spread knowledge and empathy around climate change. He was the Co-Artistic Director of the internationally recognized The Theatre of Others (2011-2025) and the co-host of The Theatre of Others Podcast (with over 36,000 listeners in 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. "The Earth Turns - a Climate-Inspired Performance for COP27" 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-Sheik, Egypt. It was turned into an Audio Play for the opening day of COP28. His production, Bright Light Burning, was commissioned by the British Embassy Gulf Strategy fund to perform at the UN COP28 Climate Conference held in Dubai, with additional invitations to perform at COP29 in Azerbaijan and COP30 in Brazil.

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.

Adam is a Visiting Professor of Devising and Directing at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). He has been on the faculty of The University of the Arts Singapore (LASALLE College of the Arts), where he taught in the Acting, Dance, Musical Theatre, and Music programs; he was Associate Professor of Theatre at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in Mexico, and was Assistant Professor of Directing at American University in Cairo. 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 young directors and 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.

His research centers on Audience Making as a new pedagogy of performance and sustainable approaches to theatre making in global contexts. Alongside this, he advances The Viewpoints as an interdisciplinary and transcultural practice, having worked with its founders, Mary Overlie, Anne Bogart, and Tina Landau, and taught and practiced The Viewpoints for over twenty-five years.

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