Max is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter,
fascinated with characters trying to navigate an increasingly absurd world.

He has won the Screen to Screen Award, the Paris Prix and was a
finalist for the Nick Darke Award, Theatre Uncut's Political Playwriting Award, Papatango's Prize for New Writing, Samuel French's Off-Broadway Awards and recently nominated for an Off West Award.

He has had worked staged at Theatre 503, the Arcola,
Paines Plough, the King's Head and many others. His award-winning, hit play, Rainer, about a voyeuristic delivery rider, played at the Arcola Theatre for 3 weeks in 2022, and was published by Methuen, Bloomsbury and commissioned by BBC Radio 3. His last play, Union, also played at the Arcola Theatre last summer to critical acclaim. He is adapting his optioned play, Ghost Fruit, with Pennway Productions into a feature film alongside other various commissions for TV, film and the stage. 

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Max also teaches screenwriting at the Met Film School on their Masters Course and runs playwriting labs at theatres across London.

 

Please get in contact for
collaborations at max.wilkinson@hotmail.com 

 

 

 

 

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