Leigh Biddlecome

Leigh Biddlecome is a curator, facilitator, and transdisciplinary consultant based in Berlin.

She curates events that bring together artists, researchers, and practitioners in novel formats, and develops partnerships strategy and public engagement for international research grants. Her consulting work in the field of cultural and social innovation includes an EU-funded grant on social coherence. In recent years she has also advised on communications for biomanufacturing start-ups and investment firms. 

She is developing a facilitation and gathering design methodology integrating embodied and relational intelligence for academic gatherings, arts residencies, and business transformation processes. She is a published essayist and translator from French and Italian to English, and collaborates with choreographers as a dramaturg for contemporary dance and experimental workshops.

A generalist at heart, she holds a B.A. (Hons) and Masters in English literature from Stanford and Oxford Universities (2008, 2009), and an Erasmus+ funded joint Masters in Cultural Heritage and Development from EHESS Paris and ELTE Budapest (2021).