Opera, a new version of the John Gay classic, (2017, dir. Alex Clifton), Alice in Wonderland (2017, dir. Derek Bond) and The Secret Seven (2017, dir. Alex Clifton). Wind in the Willows and The Secret Seven were both nominated as 'Best Play For Young People' at the British Theatre Awards. His eighth play for Chester, Jekyll and Hyde, played in autumn 2019 at Storyhouse. His version of Cyrano de Bergerac was also staged at Southwark Playhouse in 2016 (dir. Russell Bolam) starring Kathryn Hunter. Others recent plays include Babette's Feast (2017, dir. Bill Buckhurst), starring Sheila Atim, Diana Quick and Joseph Marcell. The Lifeblood, concerning the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots, was British Theatre Guide's 'Play of the Fringe' at Edinburgh in 2004, and was directed by Guy Retallack with Sue Scott Davison as Mary. The Lifeblood was first performed at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in 2001 with Felicity Wren as Mary. His play Mimi and The Stalker was one of six projects awarded funding by the UK Film Council in the spring 2009 quarter, for development as a screenplay under the name Witchgrass. Other plays include Wolfpit, about two green children said to have appeared in Suffolk in the 12th century (Edinburgh 1996; New York 2006), The Forever Waltz, a reworking of the Orpheus-Eurydice story (New York 2005; Edinburgh 2005), and The Only Girl in the World, a play about Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper (Hoxton Hall, 2001, Arcola, 2008). He contributed the fantasy The Black Remote to the National Theatre's Connections series in 2006. He is the Resident Playwright for New York's Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, who have staged Broken Journey, Wolfpit, The Lifeblood and Agamemnon Home in New York, and will present The Gambler (after Dostoevsky's novella) in January 2016 at the Wild Project in the East Village. His verse monologue, The Best Man, was turned into a feature film starring Danny Swanson (dir. Jon Croker). Several of Maxwell's plays and opera libretti are published by Oberon Books. Maxwell directed his own play The City of Tomorrow at the Barn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, in 2020, as part of the centenary celebrations of his home town. Interviews Glyn Maxwell was interviewed about his verse drama plays on the podcast Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama, hosted by Emily C. A. Snyder and Colin Kovarik. Radio His radio plays for BBC Radio