Biography
Max Posner was the 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow and is currently Writer-In-Residence at Williamstown. He received the 2011 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville and the 2015 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award. Mr. Posner is working on commissions for South Coast Repertory, Playwrights Horizons, and a libretto for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. He’s an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Ars Nova Playgroup, The Working Farm, Interstate 73, and a frequent volunteer with Manhattan's 52nd Street Project. Mr. Posner’s plays have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Underground, Atlantic Theatre Company, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, New York Theater Workshop, American Theater Co, The Hangar Theatre, The Juilliard School and Space on Ryder Farm. He is a graduate of Brown University (Weston Award for playwriting) and recently completed a two-year Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship at Juilliard. Mr. Posner was born and raised in Denver and lives in Brooklyn. Page 73 will premiere his play Judy in September at the New Ohio Theater.
