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Phoenix, Arizona Area United States
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Herberger Institute Director of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programs and Evelyn Smith Professor
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Linda Essig is Director of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programs in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, including the Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship, which has helped over 30 student teams develop arts-based ventures for Arizona and beyond since its inception in 2006 and publishes the only research journal in the field, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts. She was the first director of the ASU School of Theatre and Film, now the School of Film, Dance and Theatre Her current research is on value creation by and evaluation of arts incubators. Also a professional lighting designer, Essig's design for the ASU production of Suzan–Lori Parks's "Venus" was.