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Paul Heritage
(? - living) U.K.

Paul Heritage

Academic, drama teacher

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Paul Heritage is a Professor of Drama and Performance at Queen Mary University of London; International Associate at the Young Vic; Associate Producer at Barbican; and International Adviser to the Brazilian Ministry of Culture on the Cultura Viva initiative. In 2004 he was made a Knight of the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian government. Paul's commitment to arts and human rights work and to community and participatory performance was nurtured in the LGBT equality movement of the 1980's-90's.

For over two decades, Paul created arts-based prison projects in Britain and Brazil, reaching tens of thousands of prisoners, guards, and their families with projects including award-winning HIV/AIDs education and Human Rights work. As a producer, Paul has worked with major UK arts institutions to bring leading Brazilian companies to British audiences.

In 2006 he set up the Favela to the World programme. In collaboration with the Young Vic, he created Festa/Amazônia [2008]: a year-long performance project involving hundreds of participants and thousands of spectators in London and the Amazon region. In 2010 he was a programming consultant for Southbank Centre on their Festival Brazil , and collaborated with Jude Kelly to create four seminars/lectures about aspects of Brazilian cultural and social policy.

Ongoing practice-based research projects include Shakespeare Forum , which took place in Rio in 2011, in Salvador in 2013, toured four Brazilian cities in 2014, and in 2016 delivered three Portuguese-language productions by UK directors in three Brazilian cities;).

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Sources: http://www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/ & http://www.peoplespalaceprojects.org.uk/

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