While working as an usher at Contact Theatre in England, Maxwell me the man who would become her husband, Canadian actor Benedict Campbell.
[2] In January 1978, Campbell was offered a contract with the National Arts Centre to perform Troilus and Cressida; Maxwell accompanied him back to Canada.
[3][1] After moving to Canada, Maxwell became involved with the Canadian theatre scene, working as a director at the National Arts Centre.
[1] When Bob White, the then-artistic direct of Factory Theatre in Toronto, went on sabbatical, he asked Maxwell, still in her twenties,[4] to take over the position.
[9] Maxwell's extensive list of directed productions includes Chekhov's Three Sisters (2003),[8] Marc Michel Bouchard's The Coronation Voyage (2003) and Githa Sowerby's Rutherford and Son (2004), Saint Joan (2007), Brief Encounters (2009),[5] Jay Turvey/Paul Sportelli musical Maria Severa (2011).