Max Webster

Director

Agent

Simon Blakey
  • +44 207 908 0977

Max was the inaugural Baylis Director at the Old Vic and is now an Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse.

Theatre/Opera credits as director include:

MINORITY REPORT              Current
Nottingham Playhouse / Lyric Hammersmith / Simon Friend Productions
A world premiere production adapted by David Haig

MACBETH             Current
Donmar Warehouse
Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo

★★★★★ – The Telegraph, The Guardian, Financial Times

Max Webster’s ground-breaking production – London Theatre

LIFE OF PI                                                                                 
US Transfer to Boston, ART
& Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Nominated for 5 2023 Tony Awards including Best Director of a Play

ANTIGONE                                                                                
Regents Park Open Air Theatre
A new adaptation by Inua Ellams
Buy tickets here

HENRY V 
Donmar Warehouse
Starring Kit Harington

LIFE OF PI
West End
Winner of 5 Olivier Awards including Best New Play

★★★★★
Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, The Times, The Stage, Observer, WhatsOnStage, Daily Mail, Mail On Sunday, Financial Times, The Stage

THE LORAX: IN CAMERA 
Old Vic – Streaming

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS: THE MUSICAL
Simon Friend Productions/NBC – Televised

LA BOHEME
Goteberg Opera, Sweden

LIFE OF PI   
UK Premiere, Sheffield Crucible & Simon Friend Productions

THE MERRY WIDOW 
ENO

THE SEA OF FERTILITY 
PARCO – Japan

AS YOU LIKE IT   
Regents Park Open Air Theatre

THE LORAX
US Premiere, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre & San Diego Old Globe

FANNY AND ALEXANDER
Old Vic Theatre, London – World Premiere
Based on Ingmar Bergman’s classic film

THE JUNGLE BOOK
Northampton & Fiery Angel, Adapted by Jessica Swale
UK Tour

COVER MY TRACKS  
Old Vic Theatre, London

THE WINTER’S TALE
Edinburgh Lyceum

THE TWITS
Northampton Royal & Derngate

KING LEAR        
Northampton Royal & Derngate / ATG UK Tour

THE LORAX
Old Vic Theatre, London

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING                                          
The Globe Theatre, Re-mount for world tour

MARY STUART                                                                         
PARCO – Japan

OPERA HIGHLIGHTS TOUR                                               
The Scottish Opera

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH                                     
West Yorkshire Playhouse

SHOSTAKOVICH’S HAMLET       
City of London Sinfonia

TWELFTH NIGHT                                                                   
Regents Park Open Air Theatre

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING                                         
The Globe Theatre, UK Tour

ORLANDO                                                                                   
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

MY GENERATION                                                                    
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds

THE SHAPE OF THE IMPOSSIBLE by Sonia Hughes
Shed, National Theatre

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD     
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

MY YOUNG AND FOOLISH HEART
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

THE CHALK CIRCLE
Aarohan Theatre, Kathmandu & International tour

LONGING FOR DARKNESS
Havana Theatre Festival, Cuba & International tour

CARNIVAL UNDER THE RAINBOW
Hilton Arts Festival, South Africa & National tour

FEAST KAKULU
Hilton Arts Festival, South Africa & National tour

FINISTERRE
Theatre503  & Young Vic Genesis

EL MONO
El Cooperacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Max read English at a Cambridge then trained at L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Represented in collaboration with Katie Haines

 

Call Simon to discuss Max or other Directors

+44 207 908 0977