Job Announcement: Artist in Residence

The Department of Theater Studies at Duke University in Durham, NC invites applications for an Artist in Residence to begin July 2021. This full-time, one-year position is intended for a recent graduate of an MFA program (2019 or later preferred) in either Acting or Directing; the position requires an MFA at the time of hire along with membership in AEA, SAG-AFTRA, or SDC. Job duties will include a 2/1 teaching load in small laboratory-based acting classes as well as ancillary coaching in the successful candidate’s areas of expertise, whether as a singer, choreographer, puppeteer, dialect or voice or movement coach, fight or intimacy choreographer, or any other. While in residence at Duke, the successful candidate will also pursue a creative project of the candidate’s own with departmental resources and under the mentorship of our faculty of artists and scholars.

Submit a cover letter addressed to Chair Torry Bend, vitae, a description of the creative project to be pursued, and two letters of recommendation. Applications received by March 15, 2021, will be guaranteed consideration..

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas-an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Submit the following online:

  • Cover letter
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Description of creative project to be pursued 
  • Two (2) reference letters to be submitted online by the reference writers at this site 

Click here to apply.