Snapshot - Mike Mullins's background in performance as a practising artist:
1973 Trainee director, Old Tote Theatre, Sydney
1974-75 Teatr Laboratorium of Grotowski, 12-month residency, Wrocław, Poland, La Mama, New York City, 3-month residency
1976 Shadowline, large scale performance, St Marks Church Hall, Fitzroy, Melbourne & Village Church Hall, Paddington, Sydney
1978 Montage, an exhibition of living sculptures, Pilgrim Theatre, Sydney
1979 The No-One Performances, series of solo pieces performed in the streets of Sydney and in Exiles Bookshop windows, Darlinghurst, Sydney Shadowline II, large scale performance, Pilgrim Theatre & Seymour Centre, Sydney Kitsch or But Please Be Careful, DADA Cabaret piece, various cabaret venues & Nimrod Theatre, Sydney; New York City & St Martin's Theatre, Melbourne
1980 New Blood, a large-scale performative installation, Cleveland Street Performance Space, Sydney
Agent Orange, solo performance, Act 2, Canberra
1980-1985 Founding director of The Performance Space, Sydney
Today Mike Mullins is an accomplished creative director and executive producer. He has performed strategic roles in major international events such as Expo 88 (Brisbane), Expo 92 (Spain), Expo 96 (Hungary) and the Sydney 2000 Olympics. As a creative director and producer of design projects, entertainment programs, cultural projects and special events, he has achieved professional recognition at an international, national and local level. As the founding director of The Performance Space in Sydney, he established Australia's first national institution dedicated to the encouragement and promotion of innovation in the performing arts.