Zannie Voss

Summer Speaker

Dr. Zannie Voss is Director of SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research and Professor of Arts Management in SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business. She served as Chair of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship at SMU for ten years. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, she was a Professor at Duke University and Producing Director of Theater Previews at Duke, developing and co-producing more than a dozen new plays and musicals, two of which ran on Broadway and national tour.

She has served as a consultant to numerous grantmakers and national arts service organizations. Zannie has published articles examining the strategic factors that influence organizational performance in leading academic journals in marketing and management. She currently serves on the boards of the International Association of Arts and Cultural Management, TRG Arts, the Dallas Symphony, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and TACA, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science’s Commission on the Arts.