Max Johns

Max Johns trained in theatre design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was the recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship in 2015. Prior to this, he worked for a number of years as a designer in Germany. His previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes As You Like It. Max sits on the judging panel for the 2025 Linbury Prize for Stage Design.

His most recent UK productions include Wahnfried and Pelléas et Mélisande (Longborough Festival Opera); Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Sound of the Underground (Royal Court); Birthmarked (Bristol Old Vic/MAYK); The Climbers (Theatre by the Lake); The P Word, Overflow, Strange Fruit, Rust (Bush Theatre); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Manchester Royal Exchange); Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida Theatre); King John (RSC); The Panopticon (National Theatre Scotland); Lord of the Flies, Kes, Random (Leeds Playhouse); Heartbreakin’ (WLB Esslingen, Germany); Buggy Baby (Yard Theatre); Yellowman (Young Vic); The Half God of Rainfall (Kiln/Birmingham Rep/Fuel); Wendy and Peter Pan (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Utility, Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre); Fidelio (London Philharmonic Orchestra); Life Raft, Medusa, The Light Burns Blue, Under a Cardboard Sea (Bristol Old Vic); Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory).