Marcus Waldron is a Caribbean theatre director who is passionate about the captivating power of culture and its inherent humanity. Directing titles such as Sophocles’s, Oedipus Rex, Francisco Arrivi’s Vejigantes, Dario Fo’s “Accidental Death of an Anarchist”, and an adaptation of Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Haitian play, “Your handsome Captain.” While demonstrating a clear interest in reimagining the classics, Waldron has built new plays such as Simeon Moodoo’s “Under the Mango Trees” and Tony Hall’s, “One from Ten Leaves Naught”. These works have extended the directorial sensibilities developing from his education at the University of the West Indies where he gained a BA in Theatre Arts
In 2015 he was the recipient of a prestigious Yale Research Fellowship in directing and in 2016 co-founded Tout Moun Productions, a theatre company that focuses on assisting literature and theatre students through the dramatization and clarification of circular material through educative theatre.
In 2019 Waldron, alongside practitioner Albert Smith introduced the Micro Theatre format to Trinidad and Tobago stemming the Venezuelan Migrant Crisis and co-founded the organization Micro-theatre Festival of Trinidad and Tobago (MTFTT).
Notwithstanding these interests, Marcus is also a senior contributor to the Traditional Mas Archive: a free online resource in the preservation, personalization and performance of traditional culture founded by Broadway actor Dylan Paul.