Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor of Theatrical Production Management and Research

Texas A&M University • College Station, TX

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About The Position

The Texas A&M University College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts (PVFA) invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Theatrical Production Management and Research within the Dance, Music, and Theatre Performance section. The anticipated start date is August 1, 2027. The successful candidate will develop a nationally and internationally recognized research and/or creative-practice agenda focused on the structures that enable interdisciplinary, virtual or hybrid, media-integrated, and devised performance. Relevant areas may include digital transformation and technology for producing and scheduling; live-streaming and virtual or hybrid producing models; production-planning, budgeting, and audience or venue data analytics; collaborative and non-hierarchical producing; sound and media design as creative and infrastructural parts of production; and interdisciplinary partnerships across theatre, dance, music, visualization, and emerging technology.

The position supports PVFA's Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, a practice-based devised-theatre program established in Fall 2024, and complements existing technical design faculty. The successful candidate will teach Stage Management and Producing Theatre, along with other courses assigned within their expertise. Preference will be given to candidates with sound and/or new media design experience and an interest in advancing those areas in the program.

The successful candidate is expected to establish an active and visible research or creative-practice program; pursue external funding, such as support from the NEA, NEH, foundations, or industry partners; and disseminate work through recognized scholarly or creative outcomes, including exhibitions, performances, publications, presentations, software systems, or patents. The candidate will contribute production-management expertise to the theatre curriculum and season, potentially contribute sound or new media design expertise, build interdisciplinary research partnerships, mentor graduate and undergraduate students, and participate in section, college, and university service.

PVFA was formed in 2022 at Texas A&M University and brings together the Department of Visualization, the Department of Performance Studies, and the Dance Science Program. The college is organized without departments, placing diverse arts, performance, and technology disciplines in a shared structure and emphasizing collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarly and creative research. PVFA offers degrees in visualization, visual computing and interactive media, music, dance, and theatre, and operates on the main campus in Bryan-College Station and at Texas A&M – Fort Worth, with facilities for work at the intersection of the arts and emerging technology.

Requirements

• MFA or PhD in Production Management, Stage Management, Sound Design, Projection/Media Design, or a closely related field; candidates who are ABD will be considered if they demonstrate clear progress toward completion.
• Demonstrated potential to establish a nationally and internationally recognized research and/or creative practice in production management.
• Demonstrated experience in traditional theatrical production as well as collaboratively created work.
• Demonstrated engagement with digital/technological, collaborative, or interdisciplinary approaches to producing.

Nice To Haves

• Research or creative work involving virtual or hybrid producing, live streaming, data analytics, or other digital production infrastructure.
• Experience with collaborative or non-hierarchical producing models, including devised or collectively created work.
• Expertise in sound design and/or projection/media design as an extension of production-management practice.
• A record of, or clear trajectory toward, external funding for production-technology or interdisciplinary production research.
• Experience building interdisciplinary partnerships across theatre, dance, music, visualization, or technology fields.

Responsibilities

• Establish an active, nationally and internationally visible research and/or creative-practice program investigating production management, including its digital, collaborative, and technological dimensions.
• Pursue external funding to support the research and creative-practice agenda.
• Disseminate research and creative work through exhibitions, performances, publications, presentations, software systems, patents, or other recognized scholarly outcomes.
• Teach Stage Management and Producing Theatre, as well as other courses assigned within the candidate's expertise.
• Contribute production-management expertise to PVFA's theatre curriculum and season, and potentially contribute sound and/or new media design expertise.
• Mentor graduate and undergraduate students.
• Build interdisciplinary partnerships that extend production-management research into visualization, data science, technology, and other college domains.
• Contribute to section, college, and university service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level