Max Webster

Training

Max Webster trained at École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest

Other theatre includes: Life of Pi at Sheffield Crucible, in the West End and on Broadway; Macbeth (2023; also in the West End) and Henry V (2022) at the Donmar; The Real Thing, The Lorax (also Children’s Theatre, Minneapolis and The Old Globe, San Diego), Fanny and Alexander and Cover My Tracks at the Old Vic; Antigone, As You Like It and Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park; The Sea of Fertility and Mary Stuart at Parco, Japan; The Jungle Book and King Lear at Royal & Derngate; The Winter’s Tale at Edinburgh Lyceum; The Twits at Leicester Curve; Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe; James and the Giant Peach and My Generation at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Orlando (2014), To Kill a Mockingbird and My Young and Foolish Heart at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Chalk Circle at Aarohan Theatre, Kathmandu; and Carnival Under the Rainbow and Feast Kakulu at Hilton Arts Festival, South Africa

Opera

La bohème at Göteborg Opera, Sweden; and The Merry Widow at ENO

Awards

Life of Pi – Olivier Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Director

Max Webster has been an Associate Director at the Old Vic (2015–2019) and Donmar Warehouse (2020–2024).

(Published November 2024)