User:Max Wronkowski
Biography
[edit]Personal life
[edit]Max Wronkowski was born on June 16, 1993 in Evanston, Illinois, the only child of Linda Wronkowski (nee Gialo), and Michael Wronkowski, a Deputy Sheriff of Cook County well-known for his volunteer work in the community with the St. Stanislaus Kostka soup kitchen and self-run "Turkey Drive" for St. Stanislaus. Wronkowski is graduating from Northside College Preparatory High School this Spring and will attend The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago, Illinois where he will study Digital Filmmaking and Video Production.
Film
[edit]Wronkowski is an independent filmmaker. He writes, scripts, directs, shoots, and edits all his work, and will almost always act in them. Within the short film category, most of his short films are for school or another function of that kind.
Wronkowski has another film currently in-production for which shooting has already begun, called Blue Hour (film).
Another upcoming film for The Max & Grace Show is scheduled to be uploaded to the show's YouTube channel, entitled "New Year's Murder" (a.k.a "New Year's Murder Special" or "New Year's Special"). This film shows what presumably happens on New Year's Eve of 2008-2009. Max and Grace hold a party for their closest friends (all of these had appeared on the show more than once) and after two of them go missing, they realize that someone has begun killing them off. At the end of the film, there is a reference to M&G's cancellation. This, however, was reported to be untrue by Wronkowski:
In the [New Year's] Special, there was a scene that went something like this: MW: I think we're dying... GB: [trying to lighten the mood] Hm. I guess this means the show's cancelled... MW: Heh. [life fading] I guess so... And it wasn't the best idea in the world to say. We aren't cancelling the show. Our characters have died a couple of times anyway. Like Carl in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, he keeps coming back. A lot of the episodes we die in are never aired. Sometimes they are. But no, the show isn't ending! Keep watching!
Internet career
[edit]Max Wronkowski is one half of the YouTube show The Max & Grace Show[1] alongside Grace Benvenuti, whom he has worked for 3 years. The series is not very well-known, but has recently undergone rewrites that have made the show "less boring". Wronkowski says
I never imagined us to actually take off right away...Launch ourselves into stardom...but being seen in over forty countries worldwide and more than 75% of the United States in two and a half years? That's pretty cool. I'm working on it, though. [We] need better advertising. But it's a fun thing to do, and that's the most important part - having fun.
The series originally was broadcast as a sketch comedy, but Wronkowski says "it was too much like Adult Swim's Robot Chicken", so newer episodes were either shot documentary-style, or were given a plot outline and was then retroscripted. Max and Grace sometimes refer to their home as Los Angeles, California and even Hollywood, but are obviously (and truthfully) located in a Midwest town, almost always in a residential area, rarely downtown.
The Max & Grace Show (also called "M&G") has a spin-off, which is a parody of Comedy Central's Reno 911! entitled UPTOWN411![2]. This show sees Wronkowski and other minor characters from M&G as they explore the more exciting side of living in the suburbs. The majority of the show features uptown Park Ridge, Illinois.
Works
[edit]The Max & Grace Show
Uptown 411!
Blue Hour[3]
"Kidney Heist"
"Vacuous" (cancelled)
"Untitled Mini-Film"