His work includes The Rig, The Sixth Commandment, Sex Traffic, Occupation, The Hour, Troy: Fall of a City, Capital, Humans, Lip Service, Tsunami: The Aftermath and From There to Here.
[2] Wax was educated at Manchester Grammar School and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English Language and Literature.
The single film, Flesh and Blood, was written by Peter Bowker, directed by Julian Farino and starred Christopher Eccleston.
[12] Wax was the executive producer on the single drama West 10 LDN, written by Noel Clarke and directed by Menhaj Huda for BBC Three in 2008.
He also worked as executive producer on the Channel 4 sitcom Plus One, in 2009, starring Daniel Mays, Nigel Harman, Ingrid Oliver and Steve John Shepherd.
Also broadcast on BBC One in 2009, Wax executive produced the three-part drama series, Occupation, working with writer Peter Bowker.
[13][14] The drama traced the fraught interwoven journeys of three British soldiers who take part in the invasion of Iraq and then return to Manchester, before being drawn back to Basra.
[20][21] Later in 2010, Wax executive produced two seasons of the Harriet Braun created, Glasgow-based TV show, Lip Service, which aired on BBC Three.
[22] Starring Fiona Button, Heather Peace, Ruta Gedmintas, Emun Elliott, Natasha O'Keefe, Laura Fraser and Neve Mackintosh.
In 2011, Wax executive produced the Abi Morgan written drama series, The Hour, set in a BBC newsroom during the 1956 Suez crisis.
Starring Romola Garai, Dominic West, Ben Whishaw, Anna Chancellor, Oona Chaplin and Peter Capaldi.
The drama starred Philip Glenister, Morven Christie, Bernard Hill, Steven Mackintosh, Saskia Reeves, Liz White and Daniel Rigby.
[26] The first series of the show, written by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley and set in a parallel present, explored the impact of a suburban family who buy a humanoid robot.
Wax continued in his executive producer role on Kudos' eight-part second series of Humans which aired to critical acclaim on Channel 4 in October 2016.
In 2022 Wax also executive produced The Sixth Commandment, a four-part true crime drama for BBC One, written by Sarah Phelps, directed by Saul Dibb, starring Timothy Spall, Éanna Hardwicke, Anne Reid, Annabel Scholey, Ben Bailey Smith, Sheila Hancock, Connor MacNeil, Amanda Root and Adrian Rawlins.