From his earliest days teaching creative drama and acting for youth throughout the greater Washington, D.C. region (including Fairfax County, Montgomery County, the City of Fairfax, Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts/Imagination Stage and more - to more recent academic work at Rider University, Dellinger is, at his core, a teacher. His Masters in Arts Administration was earned while serving as a rarified Teaching Fellow in Theater for The American University in Washington, where he taught sections in Beginning Acting and assisted in teaching Improvisation, Theatre History, Advanced Acting, Directing and other topics. He taught Arts Management at Saint Edward’s College in Austin even as he built his successful producing & educating programs with TexARTS which he co-founded and taught within, and of course to this day continues to teach undergraduate aspiring Arts Leaders at Rider University. 

At Rider, he developed the Arts & Entertainment Industries Management (AEIM) program from the ground up, including expansive Curriculum/Program Design, Development & Administration as well as Delivery in the BA and prerequisite MA curricula. A sampling of courses (within the program which he) developed & delovered includes: 

Introduction to Arts Administration Arts Marketing & Communications

Arts Fundraising Arts Venue & Patron Services Management

Arts Politics and Policy Legal Aspects of the Arts 

Survey of Arts Institutions Arts Outreach & Education

Touring & Production Management Arts Practicum I and Arts Practicum II

Multiple Arts Independent Studies Policy Perspectives on Arts & Entertainment 

Arts Politics & Policy Arts Management Principles & Practice (MA)

Funding Arts Institutions (MA) Intersecting Law & Arts (MA)

Leading & Governing Arts & Institutions (MA) Marketing Arts & Institutions (MA)

Funding Arts & Institutions (MA) Synthesis & Application praxis courses (MA)

Honors Program: Law and the Arts (BHP)

CONSULTANCIES HAVE INCLUDED

• Proposal and Book Reviewing

Routledge Press

• Proposal and Article Reviewing

Social Theory, Politics & the Arts

• Program Review & Development 

    Russel Sage College, Troy & Albany, NY   

• Program Review/Assessment

Stephens College, Columbia, MO

•  Institutional Strategic Planning, Events, Fundraising & Marketing Advising

Vamberak Festival, Czech Republic

• Institutional Planning, Administrative Assessment

    Lakehouse Academy, Asbury Park, NJ   

• Institutional Strategic Planning & Board Development

   Monmouth Choir, Monmouth, NJ, 

•  Institutional Strategic Planning, Business Plan Development 

    Steps Beyond Foundation, Steps on Broadway, New York, NY

•  Institutional Strategic Planning, Transition Planning, Business Plan Development

    Asbury Park Music Foundation, Asbury Park, NJ  

• Institutional Assessment, Transition Planning

    360 Dance Company, New York, NY

•  Touring, Institutional Planning (informal, ongoing)

   420 People Dance Company, Czech Republic

•  Institutional Strategic Planning, Board Development/Planning (short-term)

    Red Mountain Theater Company, Birmingham, AL

•  Vision & Mission, Transitional Planning (short-term) Passage Theater Company, Trenton, NJ

ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES HAVE INCLUDED

• Departmental Handbook Development, Rider University

• President’s Faculty Advisory Council, Rider University

• President’s Budget Advisory Council, Rider University

• Academic Policy Committee, Fine & Performing Arts Rider University including as vice chair, chair

• Strategic Planning Committee (Presidential Appointment) Rider University

• Provost's Advisory Committee, Teaching & Learning Center, Rider University

• Dean's Advisory Committee, Vision & Mission Westminster College/Arts, Rider University

• Dean's Advisory Committee, Fundraising, Department of Performing Arts, Rider University

• Dean's Advisory Committee, Performing Arts & Arts Managmeent, St. Stephens College, Austin TX