Assistant Professor

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts is a top-ranked creative and performing arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, N.C. Founded in 1963 as America's first public arts conservatory, UNCSA celebrates more than 50 years of training wildly creative, gifted and hardworking young artists to do what they love, and do it brilliantly!

UNCSA Mission
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts provides gifted emerging artists with the experience, knowledge, and skills needed to excel in their disciplines and in their lives, and it serves and enriches the cultural and economic prosperity of the people of North Carolina and the nation. UNCSA is the state's unique professional school for the performing, visual, and moving image arts, training students at the high school, undergraduate, and master's levels for professional careers in the arts.

The highly-ranked School of Drama has produced some of the most versatile and successful actors in theatre, film and television over the past fifty years. The School offers rigorous conservatory training grounded in classical values and offering technical skills that shape today's in-demand actor. At this top drama program, you will perform constantly in both small workshops and major productions in a variety of styles and learn directly from outstanding full-time faculty and acclaimed guest artists, including award-winning UNCSA alumni. Students receive invaluable on-camera training, and opportunities to explore creative entrepreneurship; showcases in New York, LA, Chicago and Atlanta offer coveted exposure to industry professionals.

School of Drama Mission Statement

The School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts trains talented artists to become dynamic, versatile, and accomplished. Students develop through rigorous practice, creative techniques, and generative work. We provide tools to hone their unique artistic voice, develop their creative process, and foster innovation. We strive to build a just, humane, and diverse school that prepares each student to thrive in a broad range of artistic careers.

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Drama invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of Devised Theater and Directing. We seek an artist-educator with a robust practice in devised theatre, ensemble-based creation and directing for the stage. The ideal candidate will be a collaborative theatre-maker with a demonstrated commitment to experimental processes, inclusive storytelling in the tradition of companies The Open Theatre, The Living Theatre, The Wooster Group, and others. They should be a process driven, community-building artist who values student voice, agency, and ensemble dynamics as they will be working in a conservatory, practice-based environment that emphasizes both rigor and radical imagination.

This position is designed for an artist who can engage with students as creators and guide them in the development of original work, classical and contemporary directing practice, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

UNC School of the Arts strives to create an academic climate in which the work and dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained.

* Teach undergraduate BFA courses in devising, directing, and collaborative creation, with an emphasis on guiding 3rd- and 4th-year students through a deliberate pedagogical and curricular arc in devising work.

* Advise directing thesis projects

* Mentor and guide students in ensemble-based performances

* Direct departmental productions and facilitate student-led creation labs or workshops

* Contribute to the development in areas such as:

Devised Theatre and collaboration

Classical and contemporary directing practices

Community engaged or site-specific performance

* Maintain an active creative practice with a national and/or international visibility

* Engage in service to the department and the institution in general including: student advising and committee work

* MFA or equivalent professional experience in directing, devised theatre, or related fields.

* Significant experience creating original, collaboratively developed theatre work.

* A directing portfolio that reflects a range of aesthetics, forms, and voices.

* A theatre-maker who balances experimental risk-taking with craft and clarity

Experience teaching at the university level preferred, but not required.

A resume that includes improvisation, immersive and environmental work in multiple venues is desired. Candidates who have a working knowledge non-Western Theatre practices and pedagogies will be considered highly competitive. This is an opportunity for an artist with a strong track record to have a profound impact on the next stage of growth for an already strong, nationally and internationally ranked training program.

An EHRA Faculty application is required in order to be considered for a faculty position. Please note, EHRA applications do not have an employment entry section. Instead, a resume/CV will be required to be uploaded by the applicant, along with any other documents the Department or assigned Search Committee deem relevant for the review process. Applications will be treated confidentially until the final stages of the search process.

UNCSA follows the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS) guidelines for faculty credentialing. The successful candidate will be required to submit a curriculum vitae, official transcripts of earned degrees, and/or substantiating documentation of experiential qualifications as a condition of employment.

Pursuant to UNCSA policy, as a condition of employment the University must obtain a criminal background report and determine that the nature and seriousness of any criminal offenses do not render employment with the University inappropriate.

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination, harassment or retaliation based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, National Guard or veteran status, genetic information, or disability.