He graduated from Elmhurst Ballet School disciplined known for its association with Birmingham Royal Ballet where his career began for "The Nutcracker" performance at the Birmingham REP. Ben regularly works as a dance instructor for Amplify Talent, teaching Ballet, Cheer, and Acrobatics. He joined Billy Read & make Forbidden Identity show in 2021 for the Big Feast Arts Festival, Stoke on Trent. He joined choreographer Mark Smith for the Paralympic Homecoming Ceremony.
Born in Walsall, Billy was diagnosed profoundly Deaf at the age of three. He used his self-taught skills to become a dancer and an artist. He delivered online workshops in lockdown which inspired a Deaf child to contact Blue Peter requesting that Billy receive a Blue Peter badge. he travelled the world to dance with Deaf companies and Deaf individuals, including Antoine Hunter and receiving an Unlimited International Cate. In 2022, Billy established a new diverse dance inclusive company.
Cat Sheridan is the Senior Producer for Unlimited. She holds overall responsibility for the delivery of our UK and international commissions, projects, and strategic partnerships across four stands: Connects, Commission, Develop and Support. She also heads up our Connects priority, linking up our Allies with our artists and supporting the wider sector to lean into the systemic change needed to build equitable and mutually beneficial partnerships.
Kameel has been a dancer in professional practice for nearly 11 years. The dance he has professional training in are popping, contemporary technique, ballet, modern techniques and breaking. He worked with boyblue and JME, Man Made Youth, revolutions and dance NUVO. He is currently studying Dance at university, alongside, he has also been continuing to study in London at BASE which is something he has done for years with collectives such as AIM to maintain and improve technique in popping.
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. 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.
She is co-founder of Deaf Explorer CIC and support Deaf artists to access mainstream funding & opportunities with 15-year career as a youth theatre director, establishing the UK's first Deaf and hearing youth theatre in 2001. Her strength has been identifying talented Deaf artists and moving them to collaborating with hearing mainstream practitioners. She works as a producer, transformed Billy's street dancing into movement-based storytelling work.
Warren graduated from Coventry University in 2018. At the age of twenty-six, he has learnt he is living with ADHD. Street Dance defined who Warren was and he understood the moves that he wanted to emulate. Warren work with Billy Read and Deaf Explorer since 2022 as a dance artist and creative enabler in ‘Cog in the Wheel’. Warren is also a self-taught video and special effects editor who has a small video making production company and recently made a promo for Deaf Theatre Maker, Rinkoo Barpaga.