Max Baker

Max grew up in North London in the 70's. He worked for a year as an assistant Director at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, before starting his own theatre company and directing plays on the London Fringe circuit, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Hong Kong Fringe Festival. In 1986 he visited Durant, Oklahoma and stayed there for four years. Then it was off to Detroit, where he worked at the Hilberry Rep, earning a Detroit Free Press Best Actor award.

For a couple of years, Max floated around the Pacific Northwest before arriving in Chicago in 1994 where he helped form a theatre company and worked as a director and actor. Shortly after that he was off to New York without a penny to his name. He managed to find the lowest form of telemarketing and ticket-tearing jobs he could and lived in an office. He gave up acting as a pursuit and taught himself how to paint. A friend talked him in to applying for an off-Broadway audition for British actors. Despite his reluctance, Max was cast. Mike Leigh's Goose-pimples was a big hit. Max worked alongside Sam Rockwell and Cara Seymour. He landed an agent and booked a pilot in LA almost immediately. That pilot got picked up for series and Max headed out to LA for the first time. He spent the next ten years working in TV and film, peppered with stints back in New York doing plays.

Max has continued to paint, building an extensive portfolio of work, and work on stage. He is also a co-founder of a very off-beat indie NY-based band called Eelwax Jesus. He is an avid playwright, and in 2010 his play The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show was produced at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.

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