Mitch Jones – Creative Director of Oozing Future
(Born Melbourne, 1987)
Mitch Jones is a performer and artistic provocateur with over a decade of experience in creating shows that are thought provoking and playful, dynamic and disturbing, fierce and beautiful, queer and dangerous.
Working across a range of forms, including traditional and promenade theatre, giant puppetry, punk and experimental music, sideshow, street performance, live art, clown and circus, as an auteur Jones brings a unique multi-disciplinary quality to each of his projects. In 2019 he premiered AutoCannibal, a new solo work created in collaboration with director Masha Terentieva (Cirque Du Soleil, The 7 Fingers). Supported by Creative Victoria and co-produced by TheatreWorks it was described as ‘original, bold and disturbingly amusing … must see theatre’. (TheatrePress).
As professional unusualist and daredevil Captain Ruin he has toured and performed extensively across Australia and around the world at fringe festivals, fetish clubs, music festivals and cabarets, including hosting the main circus stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performance (2015/2016), and appearing in the 2019 season of Australia’s Got Talent (Channel 7). Jones has also worked with La Fura Dels Baus director Younes Bachir (Andante Project 2009-2012), as a core member of Snuff Puppets (2010 – ongoing), and performed the lead character in Circus Oz’s touring production of Model Citizens (2017 – 2019).
Jones studied Social Theory at Melbourne University, and wrote an award winning honours thesis in Theatre and Performance at Monash University. In 2015 he received an ArtStart grant to research physical and immersive theatre techniques in Europe and the UK. He is an enthusiastic proponent of using popular forms of performance to explore conceptual and topical ideas, thus broadening and deepening social debate on a range of issues.
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