Jesse Jones is a theatre Director from Bristol. He is a founding member of award-winning company The Wardrobe Ensemble who are associates of Complicite and Shoreditch Town Hall, they have toured nationally and internationally. Jesse was Resident Director at Royal and Derngate, Northampton having won the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme award. He is also alumni of the Old Vic 12, NT directors program and Bristol Old Vic’s made in Bristol scheme. In 2011 Jesse founded the Wardrobe Theatre where he was Artistic Director until 2015, before leaving he helped establish the theatre as the leading fringe theatre in the city. He is now also a trustee of Shoreditch Town Hall.
Director
DEATH DROP II: BACK IN THE HABIT
by Rob Evans
The Garrick Theatre & UK Tour – Trafalgar Entertainment
November 2022-March 2023
SORRY, YOU’RE NOT A WINNER
by Samuel Bailey
A Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth production in association with University of Plymouth, School of Society and Culture
February-April 2022
WINNERS
by The Wardrobe Ensemble
Theatre on the Downs
August 2021
DESTINY
by Florence Espeut-Nickless
Tobacco Factory Theatres/ Pleasance
June 2021
DEATH DROP
By Holly Stars
The Garrick Theatre – Trafalgar Entertainment
May-July 2021
THE TOLL
By Chinonyerem Odimba
RWCMD
March 2021
DEATH DROP
By Holly Stars
The Garrick Theatre- Trafalgar Entertainment
2020
THE LAST OF THE PELICAN DAUGHTERS (Complicite/ Royal & Derngate/ Bristol Old Vic) 2019/20
By The Wardrobe Ensemble
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING (Royal & Derngate/ York Theatre Royal/ Wizard Presents) 2019
By Mike Akers
Composer Stu Barker
MAGGOT MOON (Unicorn Theatre) – 2019
By Jemma Kennedy
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (Tobacco Factory Theatres) 2019
By Bertolt Brecht
EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION (West End -Trafalgar Studio 1) 2019
By The Wardrobe Ensemble
FOR THE RECORD (Pleasance Theatre) 2018
By Toby Thompson, Winner of a Edinburgh Indie Award
EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION (Royal & Derngate/ Shoreditch Town Hall/ TWE) 2017/18 UK Tour
By The Wardrobe Ensemble, Winner of a Stage Award & Scotsman Fringe First
WIND IN THE WILLOWS (Core @ Corby Cube/ TWE) 2017
By The Wardrobe Ensemble
SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT (Royal and Derngate, Northampton) 2016
by Mike Akers
CHAMP (Tobacco Factory Theatre) 2016
by Sam Bailey
SHIPPED (Theatre West) 2016
by Eno Mfon
1972: THE FUTURE OF SEX (Zoo Venues/Shoreditch Town Hall/TWE) 2015/16
By The Wardrobe Ensemble, Winner of a Stage Award
A DAY TO REMEMBER (Royal and Derngate) 2015
By Toby Thompson
EDGAR AND THE LAND OF LOST (The Bike Shed/Exeter/TWE) 2014/15
By The Wardrobe Ensemble
GUTTER MOUTH (The Wardrobe Theatre) 2013/14
By Greg Shewring
WILDBORE (The Wardrobe Theatre/Ignite Festival/Exeter) 2014
By Jesse Meadows
THE GRANDFATHERS (The Shed, NT/BOV Studio) 2013
By Rory Mullarky
SCUMBAG (The Wardbrobe Theatre) 2012
By Greg Shewring
OTHELLO (BOV Ferment) 2011
Readings and Workshops
EXCEPTIONAL MERCY (The Old Vic) 2017 By Rebecca Crookshank
BUILDING THE WALL (The Bush) 2017 By Robert Schenkkan
BRISTOL BUS BOYCOTT – Musical (Bristol Old Vic/ATG) 2017
CARE (Bristol Old Vic) 2017 By Sam Baily
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Assisting and Associate Director
UP NEXT GALA (National Theatre) 2017
Directed by Rufus Norris
SOUL (Royal and Derngate/Hackney Empire) 2016
Directed by James Dacre
THE HERBAL BED (Royal and Derngate/ETT) 2016
Directed by James Dacre
GASLIGHT (Royal and Derngate) 2015
Directed by Lucy Baily
BRAVE NEW WORLD (Royal and Derngate/National Tour) 2015
Directed by James Dacre
THE HOOK (Royal and Derngate/Northampton/Liverpool Everyman) 2015
Directed by James Dacre
EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES (The Olivier/NT) 2013/14
Directed by Bijan Sheibani
33 (BOV/ED Fringe/UK & USA Tour) 2013/14
Directed by Tom Brennan/TWE
Jesse is passionate about working with people in training. He has made numerous productions and developed training programs with young people across the country. From youth theatres to young offenders, primary schools to universities. A few of the organisations he has worked with include- Bristol Old Vic, National Theatre, Princes Trust, Theatre Royal Bath, St Mary’s university, Royal & Derngate and many more.
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