Eh-den Perlove
Visiting Assistant Professor, Arts Management
Eh-den Perlove (she/her) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arts Management at SUNY Purchase whose work explores the intersections of cultural equity, organizational sustainability, and social change. An arts administrator, educator, and researcher with over a decade of experience, she brings together professional expertise in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and arts entrepreneurship with a commitment to reimagining how cultural institutions operate and whom they serve.
Perlove is a Ph.D. candidate in Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Manchester, where her research examines structural barriers within the American theater industry and explores how institutional practices, from rehearsal room to boardroom, can be transformed to create more equitable opportunities for historically marginalized theater-makers.
More About Me
Eh-den has dedicated her career to supporting artists and organizations at the intersections of cultural expression, social justice, and community engagement. With over a decade of experience in fundraising, organizational leadership, and arts administration, she has worked with organizations including the Apollo Theater, New York Public Radio, and The Public Theater. She continues to consult with nonprofit arts organizations on fundraising, strategic development, and organizational sustainability.
She has served as a grant panelist and advisor for the New York State Council on the Arts, A.R.T./NY, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is also an inaugural member of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’ Cultural Development Fund Panel Advisory Committee, supporting efforts to advance equity in public arts funding.
She is a Ph.D. candidate in Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Manchester, has an M.A. in Business Design and Arts Leadership from Savannah College of Art and Design, and a B.A. in Drama from Pace University.
Research Interests
Eh-den’s research explores the relationship between arts institutions, cultural equity, and sociopolitical change, particularly the structural conditions that influence artistic access, labor, and professional opportunity in the United States.
Her research interests include:
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Institutional structures and systemic inequities in the performing arts
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Cultural policy, arts funding, and equitable resource distribution
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Organizational sustainability and nonprofit arts leadership
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Labor, access, and professional pathways for marginalized artists
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Arts activism and cultural production as vehicles for social change
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Arts management education, artificial intelligence, and ethical leadership
Representative Courses
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Finance for the Arts I
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Funding the Arts
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Arts Funding and Capital Formation
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Digital Marketing and the Arts
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Intercultural Leadership and Management
Presentations / Conferences
May 2025 — Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society
Panelist, “Creative Problem Solving: Breaking Down Barriers for Marginalized Theater-Makers”
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
May 2024 — Nineteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society
Emerging Scholar Award Recipient
Panelist, “Discussing the Theater Pipeline Problem: Barriers to Entry for Marginalized Theater-Makers and Possible Solutions”
Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
January 2024 — Modern Language Association Annual Convention
Panelist, “Theatre In/Of Joy and Sorrow: Performance & Embodiment of Marginalized Communities in the Americas”
Philadelphia, PA
August 2023 — Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference
Panelist, Women and Theatre Program Emerging Scholars Panel
“Analyzing and Breaking Theater’s Glass Ceiling: Barriers to Access for Marginalized Gender Theater-Makers”
Austin, TX
June 2023 — Twenty-third International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations
Panelist, “Creative Problem Solving: Waiting in the Wings — Breaking Down Barriers for Marginalized Theater-Makers”
Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
May 2023 — Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium
Panelist, “Learning from the Present, Shaping the Future: Access, Inclusion, and Care”
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
March–April 2023 — Everything They Didn’t Teach You in Theater School
Producer and Lecturer, New York, NY
Curated and produced a professional development conference exploring the business and operational dimensions of theater-making, including grant writing, self-producing, filmmaking, and intimacy coordination.
April 2022 — Everything They Didn’t Teach You in Theater School
Producer and Lecturer, New York, NY
Curated and produced a professional development conference addressing arts activism, entertainment law, diversity and inclusion, disability accessibility, producing, fundraising, and arts entrepreneurship.
April 2018 — New York University School of Social Work
Presenter and Moderator, “Immigration”
New York, NY
February 2018 — Savannah College of Art and Design Graduate Salon
Panelist, “An Analysis of Trends in Arts Activism in the Commercial Market”
Savannah, GA
December 2017 — Columbia University School of Social Work
Presenter and Moderator, “Social Work, Activism, and Advocacy”
New York, NY