Max Raymond (he/him) is a proud gay trans man, actor, writer, educator, visual artist, producer, theatre administrator, and consultant. He grew up in North Carolina and Texas and now lives in NYC. Max is represented by Alaina Feehan at Inclusive Talent Management and Production (reachable at alaina@inclusivemgmt.com and 929-726-8268). He most recently appeared onstage in Notes On Angels and No One’s Really a Vampire. Before that, in June, he appeared in Let’s Hear It For the Boys.

The 2026 iteration of Let’s Hear It For the Boys — an annual variety show series that debuted in 2024 — sold out the venue, broke box office records, and was livestreamed by an international audience. The series features an entirely transmasculine and trans man cast, band, creative and ASL interpreter team that changes from year to year, and it presents new work by transmasc writers alongside songs from the existing musical theatre canon. Max is the show’s Lead Producer and Marketing Manager (working alongside Casting Director/Co-Producer Charlie Hano/Hano Casting). See the 2026 show’s review roundup here: 1 | 2 | 3

Max previously appeared in developmental workshops of DADDY: a love story, Paradise Lost in Space, Too Bright to See, My Immortal: A Fanfiction of a Fanfiction, and The Seagull adaptation The Pigeon. He also performed in the new horror comedy PoserCorpse and Pride and Prejudice musical adaptation Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead (alongside Taylor Iman Jones).

In spring 2025, Max performed in the cast of indie hit The Trojans; the show’s entire extended run was sold out (read Helen Shaw’s rave review for The New Yorker here).

Max also made his Stage Manager billing debut in the fall of 2025 with new play i know why iris chang died at IRT Theater. He also served as Props Master, Light Board Operator, + Front of House Staff, and previously consulted on the script. He went on to serve as Stage Manager on The Garden with Flying Leap Productions and DANA with Loading Dock Theatre, and he’s currently Stage Managing New York City Children’s Theater’s production of Woody Guthrie’s Songs to Grow On, which will tour all five boroughs this fall. See Max’s Stage Management + Production resume here.

In 2024, Max played #00 (goalie) in a gender-expansive production of The Wolves at SoHo Playhouse. He also originated the roles of Cornelius in The Death Avenue Posse, a new site-specific play that was presented outside on The High Line, and One in the World Premiere of In Camera with Troy Foundry Theatre.

Max also recently performed in the short film 808 (a 2024 New York Trans Film Festival, Out on Film, and OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival selection), as well as the virtual Hamlet adaptation Frailty, Thy Name, in which he played a trans Hamlet. He is a member of the 2024 class of Breaking the Binary Theatre’s Summer Intensive (led by L Morgan Lee) and a 2024 NY4CA Resident Artist Advocate, and he occasionally moonlights as drag performer Ripley Grier.

In his 10+ years of teaching experience, Max has taught visual arts, theatre, vocal performance, piano, music theory, and more to students of all ages. He is an Arts Ignite Teaching Artist and is available for hire as a gender consultant and trans literacy trainer.

Max worked as the first-ever Assistant to the Artistic Director at Raleigh Little Theatre and was a Co-Founding Artistic + Creative Director of Star Pocket Theatre, which produced Mashallah: Exploring Middle Eastern Identities in America, a storytelling event, and Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, in which he also starred as Frankie Addams. He has since produced The Gaza Monologues and From Shakespeare to Gaza: Performances for Palestine at The People’s Forum in NYC.

Outside of performing, Max has done extensive nonprofit and creative administration work with Chautauqua Theater Company, Triad Stage, the New York Neo-Futurists, The Drama League, The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, Trans Mentor Project, and more. He frequently volunteers with PFLAG NYC, PAWS NY, Puppy Kitty NYCity, and Up Manhattan Cat Rescue. He is a passionate rescue cat foster dad.

Max has profiles on Actors Access, Backstage, IMDb, Ring of Keys, RISE Theatre Directory, and The Parity Database.