Max BARTON fuses art forms to ask pressing questions.

MAX is one half of the multi award-winning company Second Body.

Max (he/they) trained as a theatre director, musician and writer, and has applied his irreverent and form-bending approach across several continents at vastly different scales, from intimate experimental theatre work in New Zealand and Edinburgh to large scale musicals in Vienna, Cape Town, Cardiff and London.

With company Second Body, Max has written and performed in three award-winning music/theatre shows.

Max writes for stage and screen, and is currently under commission for three musicals and two feature films.

Max also composes music, and is currently creating the score for a feature-length documentary for Unmarked Films.

Max has worked extensively as a director, producing work at, among others, Theatre Royal Stratford East, the National Theatre, Cape Town Opera, Wales Millennium Centre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Soho Theatre, and across the UK and Europe on international tours.

Max has worked on several West End shows as Sir Trevor Nunn’s Associate or co-director, and frequently writes or directs with long-time collaborator Melly Still.