Empowering the artistic community by generating innovative work, inspiring collaboration, and providing education and transformational experiences through the performing arts.

Making Faces Productions (MFP) is a 501(c)3 performing arts organization dedicated to the creation, development, and progression of new works by emerging artists in the performing arts, especially the combination and collaboration of music, theatre, dance, film, and visual art. MFP aims to bring to life innovative and influential works of art that will expand awareness and change the way the world sees itself: promoting global relations and multi-cultural connection. Through the collaboration of artists, MFP contributes to a functioning and productive inter-disciplinary artistic community that is connected and powerfully making a difference in the world. In turn, MFP also aims to stimulate the economy for this community and allow greater possibilities and access to a career in the arts for those who are starting and those who are growing. MFP believes that there are still great works of art to be created, and we aim to facilitate these cultural advances and present them to the community.  MFP will bridge artistic communities across the globe and inspire the world through art.

 Jones Welsh (Founder & Producing Artistic Director) received his BA in theatre and dance from the University of Washington in 2000, then founded Making Faces Productions, with which he has initiated many different companies and productions including The Collective Improv Ensemble in Seattle, the Festival of Fresh Faces in Seattle and New York, and the Improv Dance Festival and Somatic Movement Arts Festival in Los Angeles. After performing for two years in New York with Reverend Billy and the Peccadillo Theatre Company, Jones returned to the University of Washington in 2003 to take the Non-Profit Arts Management Certificate Program.  He now lives in Los Angeles and has toured and taught dance throughout the world with Diavolo Dance Theatre for 5 years.  In addition to producing new artists and performance companies in Los Angeles with Making Faces Productions, Jones also collaborates with many other Los Angeles companies, such as Catch Me Bird, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Collage Dance Theatre, The Company of Strangers, Not Man Apart, and Jones has also developed numerous shows and workshops in residency at CalState Los Angeles, University of Alabama Birmingham, University of Arizona Tucson, and many more.  Jones now creates work with partner Erin Schlabach via a new theatre company: Leonix Movement Theatre Ensemble.