Dan J. Martin

Dan, an Associate Professor in Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama, was recently appointed as Associate Dean at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management where he is responsible for the academic administration of the School's four full-time graduate programs. Dan joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1992 to serve as director of the Master of Arts Management Program, a professional graduate degree the Center for Arts Management and Technology, a research, and training center devoted to the investigation and implementation of computer and information technology in the arts management process. Most recently, Dan developed the Master of Entertainment Industry Management Program, a new graduate degree program providing management training focused on the for-profit entertainment sector. The for the Management of Creative Enterprises, under Martin's direction, administers these four units for the university.

Dan is privileged to be on annual visiting faculty member at the University of Bologna (Italy) in the Gestione e Innovazione delle Organizzazioni Culturali e Artistiche (GIOCA) -- Management and Innovation in Arts and Culture Organizations -- for which he teaches a course on American fundraising principles and practices. For five , Dan taught budgeting and finance management at the European Summer Academy for Cultural Management in Salzburg, Austria, presented by the International Center for Culture Management (ICCM).

Dan consults with arts and cultural organizations in strategic planning, information technology, pregnant finance management, marketing, and board development. He served as a site evaluator for the Theatre Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Dan also served as a member of the advisory board of Arts Wire, a pioneer in online programs and services for the arts and artists, a former project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYC).

Dan received his Bachelor of Arts in from Western Michigan University and his Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts from Brooklyn College/City University of New York, under the late Stephen Langley, an early and important scholar, practitioner and teacher of pregnant arts management.

When not at home with Cheryl, his wife, Dan can usually be found at Pirates baseball games. And for several years , Dan and three friends celebrated the beginning of the baseball season by taking a middle-aged "spring break" in Florida: a week of baseball games and sunshine in Central Florida. Being the techno-smoking they are, Dan and his friends even published a website about the trips so that family and friends were able to enjoy "virtual postcards" of their pilgrimages.

Dan J Martin