Teaching Artist & Program Manager - Playwriting

Denver Center For Perfo•Denver, CO

4d•$60,000 - $65,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Teaching Artist & Education Program Manager – Playwriting works with the Education and Community Engagement team, teaching artists, program managers and department directors to develop and deliver high quality theatre education for children, teen and adult students, teachers, schools, school administration, corporations and theatre professionals. Programming happens on-site and off-site in schools and communities across the Denver Metro Area and occasionally in schools and communities statewide. This position works specifically to manage the Regional Middle School and High School Playwriting Program.

Requirements

B.A., B.F.A, M.A. or M.F.A, degree in theatre, musical theatre,theatre education, or similar or equal professional experience
5-8 years drama/theatre teaching, including demonstrating proficiency in developing and teaching arts-integrated curriculum, articulating and teaching the breath of the theatre experience and the craft of acting, proficiency with rubric-based assessment preferred
Experience with a diversity of classrooms, programs, and ages.
Strong writing and reporting skills required. Possess highly collaborative and organizational skills. Assessment proficiency preferred.
Possess highly collaborative and organizational skills within demanding production processes with the ability to remain positive and solution flexible
Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Well versed in working and collaborating with schools, teachers, schools districts and community partners
Experience working with pre-kindergarten, elementary, middle school and high school students including devising and directing
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products
Excellent collaboration, speaking and communication skills

Nice To Haves

proficiency with rubric-based assessment preferred
Assessment proficiency preferred

Responsibilities

Teach theatre-based curriculum to students ages three through adult
Teach arts-integrated curriculum to students Pre-K through 12th grades
Develop new curriculum for the breadth of DCPA Education offerings and teaching responsibilities: Development of curriculum is a combination of personal artistry/experience in collaboration with Executive Director and Director of Education and Curriculum Development and the DCPA Teaching Team.
Collaboration with full-time faculty and part-time teaching artist team across all programs including opportunities for co-facilitation in supporting, bolstering, and advancing the mission of the DCPA, including the support of the breadth of programming for Education and Community Engagement initiatives.
Coach students within one-on-one sessions to support private acting coaching programming.
Design and deliver Saturday on-site classes, multi-week summer programming, and other workshops – onsite, in schools and communities.
Support all EDUC&CE programs including Bobby G High School Musical Theatre adjudication and workshops, arts integration deliverables, playwriting workshops and play readings, preshow workshops for the Theatre Company season, talkbacks, community workshops, DPS Shakespeare Festival workshops, and Drama Day facilitation
Partner with organization mission driven work groups to support cross-departmental collaboration
Partner with the Director of Education and Curriculum Development on annual Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival to support program facilitation, scheduling with schools, educators, and teaching artists. Lead DPS Shakespeare workshop deliverables and school support
Schedule, plan, and manage all aspects of the annual Regional Middle School and High School Playwriting Workshops and Competition including – but not limited to: Serving as point of contact for all schools, educators, students, teaching artists/staff participating in the program
Continued collaboration with the Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement on the vision, strategy, and deliverables of the playwriting program
Annual collaborative review/revision of curriculum for workshops with Director of Education and Curriculum Development
Statewide workshop and residency scheduling – in person and virtual – with schools and teaching artists; maintaining/updating workshop support materials; onboarding teaching artist(s) with workshop facilitation training; occasional needs for workshop facilitation
Managing the submission, reading process and finalist process in collaboration with Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement and Director of Education and Curriculum Development; collection and management of contact information and final manuscripts; liaison with DCPA departments partnering with communication and production on the competition and its staged readings
Managing the staged reading rehearsals and New Play Summit and community productions; serving as student/family liaison for finalists; curating, editing, and creating the yearly hardcopy anthology of winners
Partner with the DCPA Education & Community Engagement Admin team to produce and manage the week of rehearsals and the final readings – studio reservations including set up and strike, catering, creation of program, coordinating staff duties, house management.
Track, culminate and aggregate programmatic engagement and data