Assistant Professor of the Practice in Theater
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About The Position
The Theater Department invites applications for an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Production and Stage Management. Candidates whose professional engagement as Stage Managers inform their teaching and professional practice are strongly encouraged to apply. The Theater Department situates artistic practice, pedagogy, and research in an undergraduate, liberal-arts context and explores theater from an intersectional perspective in which both scholarship and applied creative practice are emphasized through collaborative exchange. The Theater Department produces contemporary and classical plays, and adaptations of literary works for the stage, as well as devised and experimental performances. The department's faculty encourages and values diversity within their teaching and artistic/research practices and it is committed to ongoing curricular and programmatic development in intercultural, interdisciplinary, and collaborative theatrical innovation. We seek candidates whose pursuit of artistic goals, innovative vision and creative energy will enable effective involvement within a highly committed and vibrant community of students, teachers, artists, and scholars in Wesleyan's Theater Department, and across the University.
