Max is a 3-time Drama Desk nominee, Out100 Honoree, and recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Richard Rodgers Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, New York Stage and Film’s Founders Award, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and the JFund Award from the Jerome Foundation. He has been a Dramatist Guild Theatre Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and an artist in residence at Berkeley Rep, Ars Nova, Kimmel Center (via The Public Theater), Disney Creative Entertainment, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, among others. His musical, The View UpStairs, ran 105 performances Off-Broadway and will have fifteen new productions around the world in 2017-2019; original cast recording on Broadway Records. His other musical, KPOP, enjoyed a sold-out, extended run at Ars Nova and was the most nominated Off-Broadway show of the 2017-2018 season. Notable concert performances include the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, a six month residency at Joe’s Pub (“Existential Life Crisis Lullaby”), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Www.maxvernon.com

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“Fahuuucking brilliant. WHAT an incredible score. I want to go back 10 more times.” – Lin Manuel Miranda, on KPOP

“FABULOUS!” -RuPaul, on The View UpStairs

“Mr. Vernon’s musical numbers are perversely addictive.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times