Clinical Assistant Professor of Theatre - Acting

About this position

<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Summary</b></H2> </div><div><p>Position: Clinical Assistant Professor of Acting; Non-tenure track, Start date August 16, 2027.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p>The Department of Theatre at Purdue University invites applications for a Clinical Assistant Professor of Acting. We seek a candidate with professional entertainment industry experience and an approach to actor training that balances rigor with wellness, sustainability, and consent-based practices. The successful candidate will be able to create and teach a variety of courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels. </p> <p> </p> <p>The standard teaching assignment for this position is four courses per semester, drawn from foundational voice/movement, advanced voice, Shakespeare, and scene study, plus two or more of the following areas: commercial voice-over; book narration; dialects; live corporate events; ear prompter; teleprompter; and acting pedagogy. Course teaching loads may be adjusted by the Department Chair in recognition of other assigned duties, such as faculty advising of student organizations, production direction, administrative or service roles, and approved creative or research activity.</p> <p> </p> <p>Additional responsibilities include directing and other production support, with course release as appropriate; mentoring and advising students; participating in departmental, school, college, and university committee service; and contributing to the continued development of departmental policies, curricula, and practices.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><p>Required qualifications include:</p> <p>• An MFA in Acting or related discipline or equivalent experience<br>• Recent professional acting experience in multiple mediums (including television, film, theatre, video games, voice-over, audio narration, live events, and/or commercials); <br>• Experience teaching acting and acting disciplines at the university, college, or professional studio level; <br>• First-hand knowledge of current industry practices; <br>• Demonstrated ability to teach Shakespeare and heightened language; <br>• Directing and/or devising experience at the college or professional level; <br>• Demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following approaches or practices: Alba Emoting, Linklater, Fitzmorris, Intimacy Direction; <br>• Ability to teach pedagogy in the performing arts at the graduate level.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><di

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