Max Mora
- Producer
- Writer
- Actor
Born in Chicago to Nancy and Steve Mora step son of Jerry Factor of the Max Factor family. His first memories begin in the "Star Wars Room" a movie theater in Jerry's Beverly Hills home through whose windows you could see Aaron Spelling's estate, breathing in the atoms of the entertainment industry from a very young age.
In high school he worked as an actor in Joyce and Byrne (parents of Jeremy) Piven's Young People's company in Evanston Illinois performing Chekhov and becoming a frequenter of Chicago's Pascal Rudnicke nearly losing the role of Marshall Gregson in The United States of Tara to Keir Gilchrist. He was also taught acting for two years by Larry Grimm, partner of Michael Shannon in Chicago's Red Door Theater. He and his father invested in and worked on the films of Terry Green Heaven's Fall and No God No Master with David Strathairn.
He then attended Calarts mentored by legendary documentarian Thom Anderson regularly doing Tai Chi with Don Cheadle and listening to the talks of James Benning. He would head back to Chicago to co-produce Bollywood films The American Born Confused Desi and Amul Baby for Indus Media entertainment and associate produce the work of Director/Producer Naveen Chathappuram as they tried to raise the money (to no avail) for what would eventually become Todd Field's Tar.
After leaving Chathappuram's Immortal Thoughts he would go on to own multiple pop-up restaurants in Chicago and Bangkok, managing at one time The Aviary one of the top 50 bars in the world. Today he is the head writer and chief creative of Do Easy productions, a company he co-founded with his brother, former sports broadcaster and head of strategic partnerships at Full Sail Uni, owners of the LA Film school and Carrie Audino, Emmy winning casting director for Mad Men and Bosch. They have multiple scripted and unscripted series at varying stages of development.
In high school he worked as an actor in Joyce and Byrne (parents of Jeremy) Piven's Young People's company in Evanston Illinois performing Chekhov and becoming a frequenter of Chicago's Pascal Rudnicke nearly losing the role of Marshall Gregson in The United States of Tara to Keir Gilchrist. He was also taught acting for two years by Larry Grimm, partner of Michael Shannon in Chicago's Red Door Theater. He and his father invested in and worked on the films of Terry Green Heaven's Fall and No God No Master with David Strathairn.
He then attended Calarts mentored by legendary documentarian Thom Anderson regularly doing Tai Chi with Don Cheadle and listening to the talks of James Benning. He would head back to Chicago to co-produce Bollywood films The American Born Confused Desi and Amul Baby for Indus Media entertainment and associate produce the work of Director/Producer Naveen Chathappuram as they tried to raise the money (to no avail) for what would eventually become Todd Field's Tar.
After leaving Chathappuram's Immortal Thoughts he would go on to own multiple pop-up restaurants in Chicago and Bangkok, managing at one time The Aviary one of the top 50 bars in the world. Today he is the head writer and chief creative of Do Easy productions, a company he co-founded with his brother, former sports broadcaster and head of strategic partnerships at Full Sail Uni, owners of the LA Film school and Carrie Audino, Emmy winning casting director for Mad Men and Bosch. They have multiple scripted and unscripted series at varying stages of development.
