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 program sponsored jointly by the Heinz School and the College of Fine Arts. Under Dan's leadership, Carnegie Mellon's activity in the area of creative enterprise management grew. In 1996, Dan established the Center for Arts Management and Technology, a research, service and training center devoted to the investigation and implementation of computer and information technology in the arts management process. In 2002, he founded the Arts and Culture Observatory, a research intiative that provides objective and meaningful analysis on the internal and external conditions of non-profit creative enterprises in the Pittsburgh region. 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 Institute 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 years, 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 has held workshops and master classes in arts management, organizational structure, information technology, board development and other topics at universities and for arts-service organizations across the United States as well as in Canada, Germany, Spain, Austria, Greece and Italy.

Dan serves on the advisory or steering committees of several professional or research institutions. He is a member of the Research Task Force for the Center for Arts and Culture, a non-partisan arts policy institute in Washington, DC. He serves on the advisory board of the Fitzcarraldo Foundation, an arts management training and consulting center in Turin, Italy. Dan also served as a member of the steering committee of the Arts, Technology and Intellectual Property project of the American Assembly at Columbia University.

Dan consults with arts and cultural organizations in strategic planning, information technology, finance management, marketing, and board development. He served as a site evaluator for the Theatre Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Dan is pastt president of the Association of Arts Administration Educators and a trustee of Dance/USA (Washington DC). 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).

Prior to joining the academic community in 1989 as director of the arts management program at The University of Akron (Ohio), Dan spent fourteen years in not-for-profit professional and educational theatre administration: Managing Director of CSC Repertory (New York City), Managing Director of Virginia Stage Company (Norfolk), Marketing Director of the Walnut Street Theatre Company (Philadelphia), and General Manager of the University Theatre, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo). Dan also has spent several years with summer-theatre operations in Michigan, New Hampshire and Minnesota. While in New York City, Dan worked in the Theatre Program Office of FEDAPT (Foundation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre) and with the Richard Morse Mime Theatre. During the summers of 1994 and 1995, Dan served as Associate Producer of Carnegie Mellon Drama's Showcase of New Plays.

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

When not at home with Cheryl, his wife, Dan can usually be found at Pittsburgh 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-geeks 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.

"Not-for-profit is a tax status, not a business model."
ooo-- Jerry Coltin, Director, Master of Arts Management Program

"Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium."
ooo-- Jimmy Zero

"Pioneers get the arrows; settlers get the land."
ooo-- origin unknown

"Just because you can read the handwriting on the wall, it doesn't necessarily mean that it was written for you."
"Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
"Just because there's no such thing as a free lunch, it doesn't mean you have to pay."
ooo-- Philip Horn's "just because"s (authors unknown)

"To unpath'd Waters ~ undream'd Shores"
ooo-- Shakespeare

"The secret to success in life is to eat what you want and let the food fight it out inside you."
ooo-- Mark Twain

"You can't go home again, but I guess you can shop there."
ooo-- Tom Jankiewicz, Gross Pointe Blank