About this role
Job Summary Position: Clinical Assistant Professor of Acting; Non-tenure track, Start date August 16, 2027. Responsibilities 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. 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. 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. Qualifications Required qualifications include: • An MFA in Acting or related discipline or equivalent experience • Recent professional acting experience in multiple mediums (including television, film, theatre, video games, voice-over, audio narration, live events, and/or commercials); • Experience teaching acting and acting disciplines at the university, college, or professional studio level; • First-hand knowledge of current industry practices; • Demonstrated ability to teach Shakespeare and heightened language; • Directing and/or devising experience at the college or professional level; • Demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following approaches or practices: Alba Emoting, Linklater, Fitzmorris, Intimacy Direction; • Ability to teach pedagogy in the performing arts at the graduate level. Department The Department of Theatre and Dance seeks to cultivate maker-citizens with a strong sense of identity and agency, who have the tools to navigate the entertainment industry as well as create their own artistic work. We offer a BA degree, which has an interdisciplinary, liberal arts focus, and an MFA degree with concentrations in acting, costume design, sound design, set design, lighting design and technical direction. We are one of four academic units (including Art & Design, Film and Video, and Music) in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. The Department of Theatre and Dance is housed in Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts on the West Lafayette, IN campus, and are closely affiliated with the innovative Fusion Studio for Entertainment and Engineering, a university center focused on developing and disseminating the best teaching and learning practices at the intersection of engineering and the entertainment industry. ( http://centers.purdue.edu/fusion-studio) Purdue University is a member of the University/Resident Theatre Association (URTA). For additional information visit: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/theatre/ Procedure Candidates should submit application materials electronically via https://careers.purdue.edu/44643 . A complete application includes a letter of application, CV, statement of teaching philosophy, and names and contact information of at least three references. Please direct questions to: [email protected] or visit http://www.cla.purdue.edu/theatre/ Review of applications will begin February 1, 2027, and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. A background check is required for employment in this position. Equal Opportunity Purdue University is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access University.