Neil Webb
Director Theatre and Dance
Neil has been Director of our Theatre and Dance team since 2012. He is responsible for managing the team and leading the performing arts programme across the British Council's global network.
He leads on the British Council’s partnership with Unlimited, the UK’s commissioning programme for disability arts. He is on the programming panel for the Made in Scotland showcase. He also sits on the Advisory Committee for the IETM International network for contemporary performing arts.
Previous roles with the British Council include the Arts Manager in Taipei, Director Arts for China and the Regional Arts Director for East Asia. Before joining the British Council, Neil worked for Visiting Arts, where he helped to organise the first Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) with an arts and cultural focus in London in 1998.
Neil is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (Politics and Japanese) and City University in London (Arts and Cultural Management). He also trained in ballet and contemporary dance and is a 2006/7 Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme.
Cathy Gomez
Theatre and Dance Relationship Manager
(on maternity leave)
Cathy is Theatre and Dance Relationship Manager and she provides strategic advice and assistance on team communications and marketing.
She has a degree in Independent Study, focusing on dance and cultural studies, and an MA in Culture Industry. She worked in contemporary dance at the National Resource Centre for Dance and The Place and she has undertaken arts placements in Canada, Russia and the USA.
At the British Council she has written for and edited publications, managed the Edinburgh Showcase and co-managed theatre and dance programmes in South Asia and the Gulf. As Special Projects Manager she worked with Arcola Theatre and Punchdrunk Enrichment to develop an international version of The Uncommercial Traveller – an immersive audio performance project creating work with young artists in Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Singapore.
She was an Executive Producer of Forward Motion, the British Council’s screen dance programme co-produced with South East Dance, which toured to over 40 countries. She edited this website for four years, during which time she looked for new ways to share projects and ideas. As part of this, she initiated the British Council's International Bursaries for Bloggers pilot, supporting voices underrepresented in UK arts and media.
