Our Team
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Adam Marple
Artistic Director
Adam Marple is a theatre director, designer, educator, and researcher whose work explores the relationship between performance, audience experience, and sustainability. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Sustainable Theatre Project, an international initiative investigating how theatre can become more environmentally responsible without sacrificing artistic ambition, human connection, or theatricality.
Marple has directed more than fifty productions and interdisciplinary works across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia. His work increasingly focuses on the relationship between the material conditions of performance and the experience of the audience, asking how theatre can use its resources differently while creating deeper forms of human connection.
His climate-focused performance work has been presented at four United Nations Climate Conferences. The Earth Turns was selected by the Global Stocktake as an official side event of COP27 and was performed in the UN-controlled Blue Zone in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The work was subsequently transformed into an audio play for COP28. Bright Light Burning, commissioned by the British Embassy Gulf Strategy Fund, was presented at COP28 in Dubai and subsequently at COP29 in Azerbaijan and COP30 in Brazil.
Marple's work also investigates how theatre can contribute to climate communication. Rather than treating climate change primarily as a problem of information, his projects explore the emotional, embodied, and relational dimensions of ecological crisis. His work asks how performance might help audiences encounter climate change not as an abstract global statistic, but as a human story involving memory, place, loss, possibility, and collective responsibility.
He is Associate Professor of Devising and Directing at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has previously taught at institutions in the United States, Egypt, Mexico, Singapore, Europe, and Asia. His research interests include sustainable theatre-making, Audience Making, devising, Viewpoints, and interdisciplinary performance.
Marple holds a BFA in Acting from Wright State University and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University.
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Joshua Waterstone
Director
Joshua Waterstone is an award-winning director, digital producer, actor, fight choreographer, filmmaker, and educator. He holds an MFA in Directing for Stage and Screen and served as the Digital Technical Director for The Theatre of Others.
A committed ensemble theatremaker, Joshua has been a company member of foolsFURY Theatre Company and Ragged Wing Ensemble. His extensive teaching and directing portfolio includes collaborations with the Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, Foothill College, The Yat/Bentley Centre for Performance, and Google Arts. His professional work spans engagements with prominent organizations such as California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes), San Francisco Youth Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Georgia Shakespeare, Alliance Theatre, and American Conservatory Theatre.
Joshua’s regional teaching and directing career has taken him across the United States, including California, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Illinois. His international experience includes work in Dubai, UAE, and Baku, Azerbaijan, contributing to his global perspective on performance and storytelling.
An Associate Member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and a certified member of the Society of American Fight Directors, Joshua is also a 200-hour Classical Yoga Teacher, bringing a holistic approach to his craft. His work reflects a dedication to blending traditional and contemporary practices, creating transformative theatrical experiences.
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Steven Gaultney
Playwright and Dramaturg
Steven is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include Bright Light Burning, A Thousand Ships at the Bottom of the Sea, Limb from Limb, Negligence, and Adam’s Dream, among others. His plays have been performed in New York, Singapore, Dubai, and Baku, Azerbaijan. He was the resident playwright and dramaturg for The Theatre of Others, which produced three of his plays. His work has also been developed by Chautauqua Theatre Company and Theatre for a New Audience.
Most recently, Bright Light Burning, Steven’s immersive piece about a group of climate migrants in the year 2099, was performed by The Theatre of Others in Dubai at COP28 and by IB students of the Dunya School in Baku at COP29. He provided mentorship and direction and led panel discussions at COP29.
Steven co-founded The Theatre of Others’ annual Audio New Play Festival and served as dramaturg for the festival’s 3-4 selected playwrights each year. He’s also mentored dozens of playwrights since 2021 through TOO initiatives, including 2-3 month-long playwriting workshops and Work with Others, a free monthly playwriting event combining communal writing and discussion about the art and craft of playwriting. In total, he has served as a dramaturg for 25+ plays in the past 4 years through his work with TOO and his freelance dramaturgy practice.
B.A.: Davidson College, M.F.A.: Columbia University.