Max Webster (Director)

Max Webster is an Olivier and Tony Award-winning theatre director, and Associate Director at The Donmar Warehouse.

His latest projects include directing One Day The Musical in Edinburgh; Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus at the RSC; and Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre, and coming to the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre starring Stephen Fry and Olly Alexander.

His other recent projects include Macbeth starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo at the Donmar Warehouse and in the West End, and Minority Report for the stage, at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London.

Max Webster’s directing credits

Max’s theatre directing credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre / West End), Titus Andronicus (RSC Swan Theatre / Hampstead Theatre), Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse & Harold Pinter Theatre), Minority Report (Nottingham Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre), Life of Pi (Broadway, West End & currently on a UK Tour – Winner of 5 Tony and Olivier Awards, including a Best Director Tony and Olivier Award for Webster); Henry V (Donmar Warehouse); Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (Old Vic Theatre/San Diego Old Globe/Minneapolis Children’s Theatre); Antigone, Twelfth Night, As You Like It (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Jungle Book (Fiery Angel); Fanny and Alexander, Cover My Tracks (Old Vic Theatre); The Twits (Curve Theatre Leicester); The Winter’s Tale (The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Sea of Fertility, Mary Stuart (Parco Productions Tokyo); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Shostakovich’s Hamlet (City of London Sinfonia); Orlando, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Young and Foolish Heart (Royal Exchange Manchester); James and the Giant Peach, My Generation (Leeds Playhouse); Carnival Under the Rainbow, Feast Kakulu (Hilton Festival, South Africa) and Caucasian Chalk Circle (Aarohan Theatre, Kathmandu).

His Opera credits include: La Bohème (Göteborgsoperan, Sweden); The Merry Widow (English National Opera) and Owen Wingrave (British Youth Opera).

Max Webster Links & Socials

Instagram

IMDB