Christie Max Williams has enjoyed a long and distinguished career on stages in New York, California, and Connecticut.

In Connecticut, as a member of Flock Theatre, he played James Tyrone in the Connecticut Critics Circle Award-winning production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Monte Cristo Cottage.  With Flock he also performed the title role in a filmed production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.  Other favorite roles with Flock Theatre include Prospero in The Tempest, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Judge Danforth in The Crucible, Lopachin in The Cherry Orchard, De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Mr. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, and the title roles in Macbeth, Cymbeline, and Henry IV.  In a special Connecticut premier of Frost Warnings, he played the poet Robert Frost.  With Granite Theatre in Westerly Rhode Island, he performed Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.  And with Salt Marsh Opera Company, he played leading roles in Jack and Jill and Abduction from the Seraglio.

In New York, he performed Off-Broadway at the Impossible Ragtime Theatre (IRT) in the title roles in Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, and at Classic Stage Company (CSC) in the American premiers of Wild Oats and The Marquis of Keith.  At CSC, he also performed in repertory in Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, and Henry IV Part 2.  At the 22nd Street Theatre, he played leading roles in the world premieres of The Blue Hotel and The Monster.

In California, at the Sonoma Repertory Theatre he played Count Carl Magnus in A Little Night Music and Bluntschli in Arms and the Man. With the Berkeley Repertory Theatre he appeared as Antipholus in a celebrated production of Comedy of Errors, and at other theatres played Dmitri Karamazov in Brothers Karamazov, the Gentlemen Caller in The Glass Menagerie, and Vershinin in The Three Sisters.

He also toured the country with The New Shakespeare Company, playing the title role in Hamlet and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.

He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his M.F.A from the University of California at Irvine, where he received the Alumnus Award as the Outstanding Student in the School of Fine Arts.