Maxwell Robert Guthrie Stewart "Max" Stafford-Clark was born on 17 March 1941 and is a British theatre director.
16 Facts About Max Stafford-Clark
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Max Stafford-Clark was educated at Felsted School, in Essex, and Riverdale Country School in New York City, followed by Trinity College, Dublin.
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Max Stafford-Clark's directing career began as Associate Director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1966.
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Max Stafford-Clark became artistic director there from 1968 to 1970.
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Max Stafford-Clark was Director of the Traverse Theatre Workshop Company from 1970 to 1974.
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Max Stafford-Clark then co-founded the Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1974.
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Productions during this period included Hare's Fanshen, Brenton's Epsom Downs and Churchill's Cloud Nine which Max Stafford-Clark directed, as well as The Speakers, a promenade production.
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From 1979 to 1993, Max Stafford-Clark was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre.
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Max Stafford-Clark remains to date the Court's longest serving artistic director.
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Max Stafford-Clark helped nurture emerging playwrights including Andrea Dunbar, Hanif Kureishi, Sarah Daniels and Jim Cartwright.
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Max Stafford-Clark wrote about his experiences of staging the plays in repertoire in his book Letters to George.
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Max Stafford-Clark has staged productions for Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival.
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Max Stafford-Clark was Artistic Director until 2017 when he was succeeded by Kate Wasserberg.
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Max Stafford-Clark left the company after complaints were made about a tendency to make lewd remarks to women.
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Max Stafford-Clark has one daughter, Kitty Stafford-Clark, from his second marriage.
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In 1999 the British Library acquired Max Stafford-Clark's papers consisting of production diaries and rehearsal scripts covering his time with the Joint Stock Theatre Company, the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, and Out of Joint theatre company.