Max Webster’s CV
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
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
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 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, an is currently Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse. His 2019 production of LIFE OF PI won five Olivier Awards and Three Tonys. It is currently on a UK tour, with the US tour starting later in 2024.
He currently lives in London with his wife and three children.
