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Susan
Booth
Associate Professor
Arts Management and Administration Program
103D Quirk Building
734.487.0033
sbooth1@emich.edu
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Degrees
BFA—Scene Design, Boston University, 1984
MFA—Theatre Management, Columbia University, 1993
Professional Associations/Memberships
Association of Arts administration Educators
Arts Enterprise
USASBE (US Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship)
Representative courses taught
CTAR 150: Introduction to Theatre
CTAR 155: Producing Theatre
CTAR 452: Arts Management
CTAR 426: Fundraising in the Arts
CTAR 313: Contemporary Issues in Arts Management
CTAR 317: Case Studies in Arts Management
Advising
Arts Management, BA—major and minor
Arts Administration, MA
Biography
Professor Booth joined the CMTA faculty in the fall of 2006,
with an extensive
background as an artist, manager and educator. As an artist,
Susan spent a decade
working as a property artisan for regional theatres and opera
companies such as the New
York Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe Theatre, and the Santa
Fe Opera Company.
After completing her graduate degree, Susan took a position as
the first Development
Director for the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia. After
moving to the Midwest
Susan became the first Manager of the Toledo Cultural Arts Center,
where she developed
a campaign to raise $19.7 million to renovate the historic Valentine
Theatre. In 1997
Professor Booth turned her attention to education when she began
teaching at Bowling
Green State University (BGSU). BGSU utilized Susan’s collaborative
talents to build a
new Minor in Arts Management with the Theatre, Film, Art, Music
and Entrepreneurship
Programs. Since joining EMU, Professor Booth has continued to
connect university
resources to area cultural leaders and organizations with her
research as the Associate
Consultant on the Washtenaw County Master Cultural Plan (2008).
Additional research
projects include: Developing Entrepreneurial Skills based on
Geographic Opportunities
in the Detroit area (2010), Supply Chain Theory and the Creative
Economy (2009),
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in an Arts Management Academic
Service-Learning Project (2010) and a Feasibility Study to Expand
Arts Education in Washtenaw
County (2011). Susan is the faculty advisor for the AMP student
organization at EMU.
Professor Booth serves on the Board of the Association of Arts
Administration Educators
(AAAE) and Arts Enterprise (AE).
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