Brett Crawford

Dr. Crawford has worked extensively as a professional arts manager, primarily in theatre, and as a professor in both arts management and theatre history. The highlights of her private sector work include serving as Managing Director with Imagination Stage, an arts education and professional theatre located in Bethesda, MD, the managing director/production manager of Rep Stage and the Horowitz Center for the Arts in Columbia, MD, managing director for St. Bart’s Playhouse in New York City. She is a member of AEA in stage management and has held myriad independent management, marketing, and consulting engagements in theatre, film, and arts festival work in PA, NY, GA, TN, TX, and MD.

Dr. Crawford's academic areas of specialization include creative theories, marketing, audience engagement, strategy and management systems, technology and the arts, and the historic American theatre. Current research includes a digital history of women producers on Broadway from 1900 to the present and a monograph of the networks of women linking the Art Theatre to the Regional Theatre movement.

She currently serves as the executive director for the Arts Management and Technology Laboratory, a Research Center in Heinz College. AMT Lab serves the field through active research and engagement into the technology solutions artists and institutions are utilizing in their workdays and public programs. Recent national research studies include emerging digital fundraising pathways and Using Artificial Intelligence to Increase Engagement with Public Art.