Senior Lecturer in Acting and Directing

About the School

Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths has a reputation for excellence in teaching and research, with strengths in performer training, socially-engaged theatre, theatre history, musical theatre, world theatre, sociology of the theatre, postcolonial theatre, intercultural theatre, dramatic literature, and practice as research. Goldsmiths is located twenty minutes from the centre of London and its vibrant arts and cultural contexts.

About the Role

This is a senior leadership role covering both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching on Acting and Directing specialisms throughout the curriculum; strategic student recruitment and overall oversight of a number of BA and MA programmes, including theBA Acting pathway and studio-based work on MA Screen Acting. Other duties include researching and creating outputs (practice and/or published); line-managing and mentoring a team of specialist tutors; liaising with technical and production staff and supporting industry contacts and partnerships for students.

About the Candidate

We are seeking an ambitious practitioner who has a developing academic profile evidenced through teaching, industry experience and career-level-appropriate outputs in the areas of actor training and directing pedagogy. You will have experience working in line with sector-leading innovation in fostering inclusive, culturally-diverse, radically self-empowered, trauma-informed approaches to studio work that assist students to become articulate artists in their own right.

Benefits

We have generous benefits - an agile working environment, 28 days' annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (4 at Christmas and 2 at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development, and a broad range of wellbeing initiatives.