Organisation:
ZU-UK
Job Title:
Co-founder and Artistic Director
Persis Jadé Maravala is Artistic Director of disabled-led award-winning interactive theatre and digital arts company ZU-UK. Ethnically Iranian/Yemeni/Indian and raised in East London, Maravala is committed to reclaiming public spaces to reduce barriers to participation and fairer opportunities for working-class people.
Her work has been commissioned by LIFT Festival, FACT Liverpool, Southbank Centre, Summerhall, British Council, Macau International Festival and the Brazilian Ministry for Culture.
Maravala’s radical methodology has been taught as an MA in Contemporary Performance by Maravala and ZU-UK at the University of Greenwich.