Richard Maxwell

Richard Maxwell is a director and playwright who's presented works at the Walker numerous times, including Boxing (2000), Joe (2005), and the Walker-commissioned work, The Evening (2015). He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, the Spalding Gray award, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. In addition to the Walker, his work has been commissioned by ICA London, Festival D’Automne, Kunsten Festival, Vienna Festival, and presented in the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial. In the spring 2019, Maxwell wrote and directed Police and Thieves, presented at New York City’s Performing Garage. This fall, Maxwell made a project (Dévoiler) in collaboration with refugees in France at Théatre de la Commune in Aubervilliers. His latest book is the first monograph on his plays, The Theater Years (Westreich Wagner and Greene Naftali, 2017). Forthcoming is the publication of a collected trilogy, Evening Plays (Theatre Communications Group, 2019). Other books include Theater for Beginners (TCG, 2015), and Plays, 1996-2000 (TCG, 2004).