
Assistant Professor and Director of the Arts Administration Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). In her 17-year career as a leader and staffer in the arts sector, Hannah was Executive Director of Children’s Theater of Charlotte, Managing Director of PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, NC, and Associate Consultant at C.W. Shaver & Company in New York City, a firm specializing in fundraising and strategic planning for arts and cultural organizations, plus other positions in the nonprofit and commercial theater. She worked on the team that planned the opening events for the new Guthrie Theater building in 2006. Board service includes the Society of Arts Entrepreneurship Educators, the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), Arts North Carolina, and Theatre for Young Audiences/USA. Hannah has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council and ArtsGreensboro. Hannah is on the editorial boards of the Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base and the Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education. She is a co-editor of the Teaching Notes in the American Journal of Arts Management (AJAM). She has been published in the journal Cultural Management: Science and Education and Arts Professional (UK). She is a Coleman Entrepreneurship Fellow in UNCG’s Entrepreneurship Cross-Disciplinary Program. Hannah holds a BFA in Theatre from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Theatre Management from the Yale School of Drama, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.