Hi, I’m Maxi, a London-based performance director, writer, and interdisciplinary artist. This bio will make me seem serious because professionalism - but I’m a right laugh, I swear.

My theatre work investigates the possibilities of performance. I make contradiction-led, rather than issue-led, art. I direct form-spanning work, including cabaret, new writing, adaptations, and verbatim work. My directing and writing has been presented at Hoxton Hall; Southbank Centre; Thames Festival; Etcetera Theatre; and Oakland Theater Project. I have completed Residencies with the Hugo Burge Foundation, B&R Productions, and the Yale Centre for Collaborative Arts & Media. I am currently training on the NEXT Choreography program at the Siobhan Davies Studios.

Sometimes performance can’t encapsulate what I’m trying to say. My other artistic projects, spanning installation, film and audio, have been commissioned or presented by the Barbican; thingamagigs Collective; Farrer Huxley; and New Haven Documentary Film Festival. These projects explored discriminatory housing policies, grief, union organising, archival erasure, and public space.

Any skills I have in directing are thanks to my background in facilitation. I have loved giving community workshops with students (Beyond Equality), with local communities (ACAVA), and with vulnerable people (Barons Court Project). I have led performance workshops with Almeida Theatre, Projekt Europa, and Talk About Art.

I am a Trustee at the Greenwich Docklands International Festival and a member of the Almeida Theatre Youth Advisory Board. I’ve worked for three years as a fundraiser for non-profits and I run community art programs for Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art.

I’m from Belgium, grew up in London, and have an Anthropology degree from Yale University (with a focus on performance, ethics, and critical theory). International perspectives and collaboration colour my work. I have extensive experience in research and archive-based projects, and completed a work placement at the National Theatre Archive.

But that’s just me on a weekday. On the weekends, I’m a bitch called Patricia and she would need a whole other website.