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Post End Date:
July 2, 2026 at 11:59 PMThis job advertisement is to fill an existing vacancy in the CUPE4207-1 (Employee Group)
DART 2P51D3
Embodying Text
Exploration of script-based performance through the embodiment of monologue and scene studies in contemporary realism. Techniques for approaching a script, a role, creating character, impulse work, vocal and physical awareness.
Half course:Lab, 5 hours per week.
LAB Monday 10:00 – 13:00, Thursday 15:00 – 17:00
Compensation
Effective September 1, 2026 - $7, per half course (195 hours nominally)
Effective September 1, 2026 - $15, per full course (390 hours nominally)
Please note: Instructors who are employed in a 2-hour/week lecture, or the equivalent of a 2-hour/week lecture, are responsible for the first hour of seminar/lab in each course.
Duties
Duties and responsibilities will be in accordance with Article of the Collective Agreement. These include scheduled contact time with students and non-classroom time (preparation of lectures, student consultation, marking and grading and course administration, including grade appeals and cases of academic dishonesty).
Qualifications
1. PhD or MFA in acting ordirecting fortheatre, ora relevant, related discipline and training in recognized approaches to scene study and impulse work.
2. Significant professional and/or scholarly contributions to acting ordirecting fortheatre or a relevant, related discipline.
3. Successful, relevant,theoretically-informedpost-secondary teaching experience. Evidence of teaching effectiveness will ideally consist of a complete teaching dossier.Previouscourse evaluations, peer teaching evaluations, teaching letters of recommendation, or equivalentobjective,systematically collected evidence will also be considered.
4.Expertisein anti-oppressive, decolonizing, anti-racist, anti-supremacist, or related approaches to theatre making, theatre pedagogy, and/or theatrical practices. Evidence ofexpertisewill ideallydemonstratehow these principles are integrated into the applicant’s post-secondary teaching.Expertisemay include, for example, scholarly presentations or publications, development of professional practices, academic or professional leadership, consulting work, or professional development or training.
5.Demonstratedability to use the BRIGHTSPACE online learning management system, theBrockDBonline portal, the OASIS system for managing student accommodations, or equivalent systems in other institutions.