Max Webster smiling to camera

Max Webster

Director

Max Webster is an Associate Director at The Old Vic Theatre, London. For the Old Vic he has directed three world premiere productions – Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, Cover My Tracks and Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, which transferred to San Diego Old Globe and Minneapolis Children’s Theatre in the US.

Previously for ENO: The Merry Widow

Career Highlights

Other recent work includes: As You Like It, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Sea of Fertility, Mary Stuart (Parco, Tokyo); The Jungle Book (Fiery Angel, UK tour); The Twits (Leicester Curve); The Winter’s Tale (Edinburgh Lyceum); Owen Wingrave (British Youth Opera); Much Ado About Nothing (Globe Theatre); Shostakovich’s Hamlet (City of London Sinfonia); Orlando, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Young and Foolish Heart (Manchester Royal Exchange); James and the Giant Peach, My Generation (Leeds Playhouse); The Chalk Circle (Aarohan Theatre, Nepal); Carnival Under the Rainbow, Feast Kakulu (Hilton Arts Festival).

Forthcoming: world premiere stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (Sheffield Crucible). This is his ENO debut.

Last updated: 5th January 2024