Derek Wax was a producer at Granada TV from 2001 to 2005 and an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017.
19 Facts About Derek Wax
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Derek Wax was an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017.
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Derek Wax left Kudos to launch his new label Wild Mercury Productions in 2017.
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In 2015, Derek Wax was executive producer of the BBC miniseries Capital.
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Derek Wax's brother Kenny Wax is a theatre producer, whose productions include The Play That Goes Wrong and Six the Musical.
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Derek Wax's career began in theatre, starting as an assistant director at the Greenwich Theatre and Albery Theatre on a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
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Derek Wax was a staff director at the Royal National Theatre in 1989 and 1990, before working at a number of London-based theatres where he directed numerous plays, including Ivan Klima's Games at the Gate Theatre, Patrick's Day at the Battersea Arts Centre, No Remission at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and The Life of the World to Come at the Almeida Theatre.
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Shortly after working on The King and Us, Derek Wax left the BBC to join Granada television as a producer, while working with Red Production Company in Manchester.
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In 2002, Derek Wax produced Sally Wainwright's three-part mini-series Sparkhouse for Red Productions and BBC One.
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Derek Wax joined the British production company Kudos in 2005.
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Derek Wax was the executive producer on the single drama West 10 LDN, written by Noel Clarke and directed by Menhaj Huda for BBC Three in 2008.
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Derek Wax worked as executive producer on the Channel 4 sitcom Plus One, in 2009, starring Daniel Mays, Nigel Harman, Ingrid Oliver and Steve John Shepherd.
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Also broadcast on BBC One in 2009, Derek Wax executive produced the three-part drama series, Occupation, working with writer Peter Bowker.
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Later in 2010, Derek Wax executive produced two seasons of the Harriet Braun created, Glasgow-based TV show, Lip Service, which aired on BBC Three.
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In 2011, Derek Wax executive produced the Abi Morgan written drama series, The Hour, set in a BBC newsroom during the 1956 Suez crisis.
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Derek Wax teamed up with Peter Bowker in 2014 for the three-part mini-series about the IRA bombing in Manchester, which was titled From There to Here.
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Shortly after, Derek Wax worked as executive producer for the Channel 4 and AMC sci-fi series Humans.
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In early 2017, Derek Wax left Kudos to set up the independent production company Wild Mercury under Banijay Group.
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Derek Wax continued in his executive producer role on Kudos' eight-part second series of Humans which aired to critical acclaim on Channel 4 in October 2016.