Derek Wax
| Derek Wax | |
|---|---|
| Born | Manchester, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
The Manchester Grammar School Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation | TV producer and executive producer |
| Known for |
Sex Traffic - Producer Occupation - Executive Producer The Hour - Executive Producer Humans - Executive Producer |
Derek Wax is a British television producer, best known for his award-winning production work on Sex Traffic, Occupation, The Hour and Humans. Wax started his career working in London-based theatres before moving to the BBC to work in television production. He is currently an executive producer at Kudos.
Wax's first major work came as producer of the BAFTA nominated single drama Flesh and Blood for BBC2 in 2002. This was followed by the Channel 4 series Sex Traffic, which won a number of BAFTAs. His first role as executive producer came on the BBC and HBO mini-series, Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2009, he produced the BAFTA winning BBC mini-series, Occupation. Since then he has been executive producer on the Emmy winning and Golden Globe nominated The Hour.
He is currently executive producer of the AMC and Channel 4 series, Humans and the BBC mini-series Capital.
Wax was born in Manchester, England. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford University with a degree in English Language and English Literature.
His career began in theatre, starting as an assistant director at the Greenwich Theatre and Albery Theatre on a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters. He was a staff director at the Royal National Theatre in 1989 and 1990, before working at a number of London-based theatres where he directed numerous plays, including Ivan Klíma's Games at the Gate Theatre, Patrick's Day at the Battersea Arts Centre, No Remission at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and The Life of the World to Come at the Almeida Theatre.
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