Max Truax

Max Truax recently directed Trap Door Theatre’s A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, by Dorota Maslowska. He also directed Trap Door's No Darkness Round My Stone, by Fabrice Melquiot. Prior to working with Trap Door, Max founded and was Artistic Director for Filament Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He also founded and was artistic director for the experimental performance company \twelv\ in Oberlin, Ohio, with whom he created a series of seventeen site-specific performance installations. Previous directing credits include Termen Vox Machina at Chicago’s Oracle Theatre, and Cassandra, Farewell Juliet, Gadfly, Blood Wedding, Salome, and When We Dead Awaken in Los Angeles. He also created and directed two experimental operas, BEING NOT NOTHING, and Furniture. Max recently led workshops on butoh and deconstructionist theatre-making at Oracle Theatre, where he is a company member. He has assisted Frank Maugeri on Laika’s Coffin for the Method to Madness festival at Links Hall, and he occasionally directs for Redmoon for Hire. He has also assisted acclaimed director Karin Coonrad on her production of The Visit. Max studied visual art, performance art, and post-modern choreography at Oberlin College. He received his MFA in theatre directing from California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Travis Preston, Erik Ehn, Lewis Klahr, and Suzan-Lori Parks.