Max Weitzenhoffer

Max has been involved in numerous shows, such as Sleuth, Equus, The Elephant Man, Rose, Timbuktu, Mass Appeal, Passion and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Piaf. He co-produced Off-Broadway Tickles by Tucholsky, The Good Parts, Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down and Road To Mecca.

On Broadway his work includes the International Tony Award winning hit Dracula, Going Up, Harold and Maude, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance, Blood Knot, Burn This, Largely New York and the Tony Award winning musical The Will Rogers Follies. In the West End: Budgie, Burn This. In 1999 he started co-producing with Nica Burns. Productions include: Scissor Happy, Defending The Caveman (2000 Oliver Award), Medea starring Fiona Shaw directed by Deborah Warner (2001 Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress and Best Director), Feelgood (2001 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy), My Brilliant Divorce (Apollo) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Gielgud and Garrick), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Apollo), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic and Broadway), Swimming with Sharks (Vaudeville), Rain Man (Apollo), Three Days of Rain (Apollo), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville) and Endgame (Duchess). In 2010, When We Are Married (Garrick) and Design for Living (Old Vic). In 2011 Matthew Fox and Olivia Williams in a new Neil Labute play, In a Forest, Dark and Deep at the Vaudeville, Ecstasy by Mike Leigh with Hampstead Theatre at the Duchess, Pygmalion starring Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon at the Garrick. In 2012, Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Apollo. In 2013: Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic starring Kim Cattrall, a co-production with the Old Vic and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Duchess Theatre, a co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre.

Max and his business partner Nica Burns own six of London’s playhouses: the Palace, Lyric, Apollo, Garrick, Duchess and Vaudeville Theatres, forming Nimax Theatres Limited.