Max Currie is a New Zealand writer-director who originates premium IP and loves joining strong teams early - whether building his own projects as creator-EP or stepping into rooms and directing gigs when there’s real alignment.
 

From Emmy-winning Rūrangi to the queer crime-comedy-drama Bust Up (due 2026), his work burns with longing, contradiction, and unspoken truths. Max follows the heat of ideas culture tries to obscure or hide, and builds collaborative rooms where honesty, tenderness, and challenge can coexist.

And because life is strange and people are multifaceted, he’s also known as Pit Crew on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under - a delicious detour for a filmmaker who understands that the line between awe and absurdity is always a little tucked.

Desire as direction. Kindness in the heat. Built on contradiction.​​