Biography
Derek Wax is a British television producer and executive producer. Born in Manchester, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He began his career in London theatres before moving into television production at the BBC.
His early producing credits include Flesh and Blood (2002) and the Channel 4 series Sex Traffic (2004), the latter winning multiple BAFTA awards including Best Drama Serial. He later served as an executive producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017 and founded Wild Mercury Productions in 2017.
Wax has been executive producer on series including The Hour (2011), Humans (2015), Troy: Fall of a City (2018), The Rig (2023) and The Sixth Commandment (2023). His brother Kenny Wax is a theatre producer.
