Max Webster’s CV
One Day, The Musical
The Importance of Being Earnest
Antigone (co-Director, with Jo Tyabji)
The Sea of Fertility
The Jungle Book
Cover My Tracks
The Twits
King Lear
Twelfth Night
My Young and Foolish Heart
Grange Festival Opera
Edinburgh Lyceum
Royal Shakespeare Company / Hampstead Theatre
National Theatre / Noel Coward Theatre
Pinter Theatre / Donmar Warehouse
Regents Park Open Air Theatre
Donmar Warehouse
Broadway / A.R.T. Boston / Wyndham’s / Sheffield Crucible
Göteborg Opera
English National Opera
Parco Theatre, Tokyo
Regent’s Park Theatre
Children’s Theatre, Minneapolis / Old Globe, San Diego
Old Vic
Royal & Derngate, Northampton / Fiery Angel
Old Vic / Latitude
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Leicester Curve / Rose Kingston
Peacock Theatre / British Youth Opera,
Royal & Derngate, Northampton / ATG
Old Vic / Royal Alexandria, Toronto
Parco Theatre, Tokyo
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Regent’s Park Theatre
Globe Theatre / World Tour
Royal Exchange, Manchester
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Exchange, Manchester
2026
2026
2025
2024/5
2023/4
2022
2022
2019-24
2020
2019
2018
2018
2018
2018
2017
2017
2017
2016
2016
2016
2015 & 2017
2015
2015
2014
2014 & 2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
Max Webster is one of the most in-demand British theatre and opera directors of his generation. He read English at Cambridge (2001/5), then trained at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris (2005/6), and as a long-term associate to Simon McBurney at Complicite. He received RYTDS bursary to work at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (20012/3). As an opera staff director he has worked at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, La Scala, Opera de Lyon & De Nederlands Opera. He was a Baylis director, then Associate Director (2015-2018) at the Old Vic, under Mathew Warchus, then Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse (2020-2024).
He currently lives in London with his wife and three children.
