PEOPLE'S PALACE PROJECTS - Key Persons
Lizet Chavez Prado is a Peruvian/ Argentinian actress and performance maker based in London, UK. Interested in performing arts projects based on collective and interdisciplinary practices. Her work is characterized by its social and intimate content using audio and visual mediums. Graduated from the International School of Theatre Jacques Lecoq (France). Bachelor's degree in media studies from San Martin de Porres University (Peru) and a Master's degree in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University (UK). She has been a performer since 2007, participating as an actor in Theatre, TV and Feature Films, as well as an acting coach for film and theatre productions, acting teacher and art facilitator.
Lizet worked on Far Apart LATAM project in August 2021 and in January 2023 she joined the PPP UK team as a project manager in the area related to mental health and young people. She currently works with PPP 3 days a week.
Job Titles:
- Research Assistant and Oca Blue Lead
Mariana has a MSc in Public Policies from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and is currently studying for a PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Mariana has ten years of experience contributing to research projects on the creative economy, cultural policies and the arts, working with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture and other national cultural organisations before she began work with PPPdoBrasil in 2018. Believing that arts and culture have an important role in promoting a better and fairer world, she is particularly interested in their contributions to mental health and wellbeing of subjects and communities.
Mariana is currently working two days a week at People's Palace Projects, on projects that explore the different values of culture and the impacts of arts in mental health.
Job Titles:
- PPP's Artistic Director, Receives the British Council 's 70th Anniversary Award
- Professor of Drama and Performance at Queen Mary
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 Heritage receives Premio ORILAXÉ award for Human Rights.
In January 2021, Renata Peppl moved to a new job in the QMUL Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, where she now works on several arts and mental health/wellbeing projects that PPP delivers in partnership with the Unit. In her extra time, Renata is still our project manager for several long-term projects at PPP: With One Voice - our arts and homelessness UK-Brazil exchange in collaboration with Streetwise Opera, from 2015 to date; and our work on Violence Against Women and Girls, including our partnership with WOW Rio.
Renata was born and raised in South Brazil and moved to London in 2011. She has worked as an arts journalist, playwright and arts project manager. Before joining People's Palace Projects, Renata developed film, visual arts, theatre and music projects alongside organisations such as Somerset House, Roundhouse and RichMix. Previously in Brazil, she was co-founder and playwright for Tem inço na Coxia Theatre Company, having touring with her plays around Brazil for almost 10 years. She has also worked as a freelance culture journalist for publications including ELLE magazine, Folha de São Paulo and O Globo; and a PR professional working on accounts including Fundação Iberê Camargo (Arts Museum). For six years Renata managed a series of PPP's projects including our London as a Village film project in 2015; The Verbatim Formula; and Building the Barricades.
Job Titles:
- Communications Manager and Indigenous & Climate Projects Manager
Yula joined the PPP team in May 2020 as our Communications Officer and PR, initially with a focus on Building the Barricades but has been involved in all PPP's projects. She has a MA in International Journalism, through a Chevening Scholarship (FCDO) awarded in 2005 to study in the UK.
The former reporter and international correspondent worked for major TV networks in Brazil - Globo TV, GloboNews and SBT. In the US, where she was based for 13 years, Yula covered 3 Presidential elections, 13 United Nations General Assemblies, G20 summits, historic diplomatic agreements, Fidel Castro's funeral and every major breaking news story. She was awarded the Herzog prize for her series of special reports from Guantanamo, Cuba, as the first Brazilian journalist to enter the US military base.
Since moving back to London Yula has specialised in human rights communications for organisations including Grupo Mulheres do Brasil , International Observatory of Human Rights, Detention Action and Respond Crisis Translation, while also writing for Stanford Social Innovation Review and Latin News and reporting for SBT news on a freelance basis.