Max Johns is a designer for live performance and film. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School with an MA in Theatre Design and a BA in Drama and German from Bristol University. He was the recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship Award in 2015.

Recent design work includes: As You Like It (Costume design -Shakespeare’s Globe); Lord Of The Flies (Leeds Playhouse Quarry Theatre / UK tour); Sound Of The Underground (Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs - co-design with Rosie Elnile); Cash Money Now (The Big House); The P Word (The Bush); The Climbers (Theatre by the Lake); The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart (Manchester Royal Exchange); Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida); Overflow (The Bush); Strange Fruit (The Bush); The Half God Of Rainfall (Fuel / Kiln / Birmingham Rep); Yellowman (The Young Vic); King John (RSC The Swan); Wendy & Peter Pan (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Utility (The Orange Tree). For Bristol Old Vic: Birthmarked; Under a Cardboard Sea; Spooky Ship.