Maxine also played the character of Mrs Busby in the BBC drama Call The Midwife Evans's career as a director started on stage at the Glasgow Tron Theatre in 1996.
A play by Sharman Macdonald was underway, when the director was unable to continue Maxine was drafted from actor to actor/director to get the show to the opening night.
She had started as script writer and head story-liner on the show the year before when it won a Royal Television Society Award.
Maxine went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where one of her classmates was Daniel Craig, who later played James Bond, .
First writing, directing and as the head story-liner on the Royal Television Society Awards winning welsh drama Nuts and Bolts.