Duncan M. Webb founded Webb Management Services, Inc. to provide management consulting services to the arts and cultural industries. Since its founding in 1997, the firm has successfully completed more than 475 consulting assignments for the advancement of cultural communities, organizations and facilities.

Duncan’s career in the arts began onstage as a lovesick maiden in a 1969 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. After college, he became a banker, spending seven years in commercial lending and international finance. In 1986, after many years of volunteer work in the arts, he came into the field as a producer of experimental, industrial, and commercial theatre, with such credits as the Canadian premieres of Changing Bodies, Children of a Lesser God, Blood Brothers, Orphans, Marshall Bravestarr, and Barbie and the Rockers. He also developed marketing and sponsorship programs for the Canadian premiere of Les Miserables.

A Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Duncan has been an active speaker and published writer on arts management and the development, operation and financing of arts facilities. Webb’s book “Running Theaters: Best Practices for Managers and Leaders” was the first book ever written on the management of performing arts facilities. It was recently translated in Mandarin and is being used to inform cultural development throughout China. A second edition is now in development. He recently taught a course entitled “Managing in an Arts Environment” in the Arts Administration graduate program at Baruch College (CUNY.)

Number of Cultural Facility Projects Completed: 475+

Years of Experience | Arts Administration: 40+

Years of Experience | Cultural Facility Planning: 30+

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, University of Western Ontario 

Master’s Degree in Business Administration, University of Toronto

Recent Project Experience:

Oneonta Theatre Feasibility Study, Oneonta, NY

Feasibility Study for Proctor’s Theatre Expansion, Schenectady, NY

Feasibility Study for Arts Facilities + a Park City Arts District, Park City, UT

Operating Scenarios for White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, NJ

Feasibility Study for Performing + Visual Arts Facilities, The Woodlands, TX

NextStage: The Future of Denver’s Performing Arts Complex, Denver, CO

Feasibility Study for an African American Cultural Center, Virginia Beach, VA

Feasibility Study for Expansion at Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, OK

Feasibility Study for Expanded Performing + Visual Arts Facilities at the Goddard Center, Ardmore, OK

Feasibility Study for New Arts Facilities, Westminster, CO