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David J. McGraw is an Assistant Professor and the Program Coordinator for the Arts Administration program at Elon University. He formerly served the head of the stage management and arts entrepreneurship programs at the University of Iowa as well as the Executive Director of the Iowa Summer Rep. In 2008, he designed the UI Certificate in Arts Entrepreneurship. Mr. McGraw is the author of "The Epoch Model: An Arts Organization with an Expiration Date," which was featured in 20UNDER40: Re-inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century. Mr. McGraw also founded SM-Sim, LLC, a business focused on developing tools for stage managers, and the Stage Manager Survey, the largest study of stage managers in the world.
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A proud member of Actors' Equity Association, Mr. McGraw has stage managed for the Chester Theatre Company, Iowa Summer Rep, Arizona Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Oldcastle Theatre, Perishable Theatre, StageWorks on the Hudson, Vilar Performing Arts Center, White River Theatre Festival, and the Yale Repertory Theatre. He also is serving as a Director-at-Large for the Stage Managers Association (having served as a Second Vice Chair in 2007).
Mr. McGraw was selected as one of the first stage/theatre managers to serve on the Fulbright Specialist roster. He was chosen by the South African State Theatre for their Share Your Journey, Set My Journey project in May 2019. This project investigates how the new musical FREEDOM can tour the United States as well as provides workshops on stage management, producing theatre, grant-writing, and touring theatre.