Mazumdar enrolled in Loyola College (now part of Concordia University) in Montreal and graduated in 1972, with a BA degree in Communication Arts.

Their 1973 production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, in which Mazumdar played Martha as a man, gained international notoriety after its closing by the author was written about in the New York Times and elsewhere.

During this time, he led the production of several performances in collaboration with director Edmund MacLean and executive producer Cheryl Stagg.

Notable productions included Macbeth, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Man Who Came To Dinner, and Cyrano de Bergerac.

[9] Mazumdar united once again with director Jordan Deitcher for two shows in New York City, playing King Lear in Raven's 1984 production at the Park Royal Theatre, and writing and appearing in the 1985 Off-Broadway world premiere of The Bentley Variations (aka Unholy Trinity), a cabaret about the role and treatment of the visionary in society, based on the works of Eric Bentley.

[10] Maxim Mazumdar's time developing and producing the Stephenville Theatre Festival with his friend Cheryl Stagg was the focus of the College of the North Atlantic's 2018 Digital Filmmaking intersession film project The Impossible Dream.