Max Posner’s plays include The Thing About Air Travel, The Famished, The War on Safety (published by Playscripts), You Me + The Spiders, and SNORE and other sorts of breathing. His plays have been staged and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Colt Coeur, The Hangar Theatre, Curious Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Young Playwrights Inc, and Production Workshop. Max is a 2011 graduate of Brown University where he studied with Erik Ehn, Lisa D’Amour, Bonnie Metzgar, and Paula Vogel.

He is the recipient of the Weston Award in Playwriting and the 2011 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. Max was a finalist for Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission, is a member of Interstate 73, the Page 73 writers group, and is a founding member of FRANK. He occasionally finds himself onstage (in the original production of Gregory Moss’ punkplay and in FRANK’s upcoming production of Wallace Shawn’s A Thought in Three Parts). Max has led playwriting workshops with high schoolers in Nebraska, inmates in Rhode Island, and youth in Kenya’s Kibera slum. He was born and raised in Denver and lives in Brooklyn.’

Max will spend his fellowship year working on SNORE and other sorts of breathing, a  music collaboration he describes as a “rock concert with scenes,” and a new play that he’ll develop from first page to full draft over the course of the year.