Maxson has designed the lighting for MTC’s productions of Good People and Circle Mirror Transformation. Other recent designs include A Raisin in the Sun and The Tempest at Cal Shakes, Terminus at Magic Theatre, Assassins at Shotgun Players, Higher at A.C.T., The Companion Piece at Z Space, Paufve Dance’s So I Married Abraham Lincoln at Dance Mission Theater and Hunters Point at Strange Angels. Maxson was an artistic associate at the Wooster Group in New York City from 2002-2010, where he co-designed with renowned designer Jennifer Tipton the premieres of La Didone, Hamlet and Poor Theater, and co-created the interactive video installation There Is Still Time... Brother. He received a 2009 Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant (with his wife, actress Michelle Maxson, who has appeared at MTC in The Whale) and a 2011 Lighting Artists in Dance Award. Maxson is an assistant professor of production and design and resident lighting designer at the University of San Francisco.