Max Mitchell

Max Mitchell’s play Life Support was called “a tour de force achievement ... and unforgettable” by the Los Angeles Times. Life Support is published in The Best American Short Plays along with such distinguished playwrights as Elaine May, Steve Martin, David Mamet and Thornton Wilder. Get Your Stuff, his first feature film, was honored in North Carolina as best feature and in Portland, Oregon, with the coveted audience award. The Santa Fe New Mexican called Max’s sci fi parody, Horror In The Wind “hilariously subversive.”Mitchell’s short documentary, The Spirit & the Earth, about the mission at Laguna Pueblo, won the top prize at Pahfest. The Maxmobile, his next documentary, chronicles the life of Max’s great uncle, David Maxwell, who invented one of the first Canadian cars in 1900.Max began as an actor/singer and appeared in theatres across his native Canada. He received a Canada Council Award to study acting with the legendary Uta Hagen in New York City where he appeared in several plays and cabarets. Winner of an Edward Albee Fellowship, Max was also a two-time finalist in the prestigious Writers Film Project. Seeking Salvador is Mitchell’s first novel. Currently writing his second and performing stand-up comedy, Max can be found at www.maxmitchell.ca