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Opening Act Assistant Teaching Artist Positions

Application Deadline: Friday, May 28, 2016

Job Description: Opening Act seeks Assistant Teaching Artists for its after-school theater programs in New York City’s public high schools. Teaching artists will work as a team to bring together a strong ensemble of students, give them a foundation in improvisation and acting technique, and lead them through the creative process of devising and performing an original production which will be performed by the students in a professional theater. All Teaching Artists will be trained throughout the year and Assistant Teaching Artists have the potential to become Lead Teaching Artists after a year of working with Opening Act.

Assistant teaching artists will be hired for the length of the school year (September-June) to work at 1 of our partnering campuses. Programs meet weekly for two hours each. In addition to the weekly workshops with students, teaching artists will have monthly 1 1/2-hour team meetings, two weekend training sessions and two 3-hour meetings with all Opening Act teaching artists, as well as extra rehearsals with the students as they near their performances.

This is a part-time position.

Click the link below for more information about Opening Act, additional job requirements, desired experience, and the application.

http://www.openingact.org/work

Marcus Denard Johnson

Assistant Program Director

Opening Act

404.694.0060

openingact.org