Teaching Artist & Program Manager - Playwriting

Teaching Artist & Education Program Manager – Playwriting

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is one of the largest non-profit theatre organizations in the nation, presenting Broadway tours and producing theatre, cabaret, musicals, and innovative, immersive experiences. Through these experiences and alongside our robust Education program, we engage hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

Our Mission: "We engage and inspire through the transformative power of live theatre."

For more than 40 years, creativity and community have been the foundation of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' success. As a leading cultural organization in the Rocky Mountain West, we are actively participating in a cultural evolution of belonging and anti-racism. Our commitment to reflect the diversity and priorities of our community — in our workplace, audience and programming — has never been more present.

We believe that the theater can transform us — and be transformed by us. We invite you to be part of our Team.

Job Purpose:

The Teaching Artist & Education Program Manager – Playwriting works with the Education and Community Engagement team, teaching artists, program managers and department directors to develop and deliver high quality theatre education for children, teen and adult students, teachers, schools, school administration, corporations and theatre professionals. Programming happens on-site and off-site in schools and communities across the Denver Metro Area and occasionally in schools and communities statewide.

This position works specifically to manage the Regional Middle School and High School Playwriting Program.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Teach theatre-based curriculum to students ages three through adult
• Teach arts-integrated curriculum to students Pre-K through 12th grades
• Develop new curriculum for the breadth of DCPA Education offerings and teaching responsibilities
• Collaboration with full-time faculty and part-time teaching artist team across all programs
• Coach students within one-on-one sessions to support private acting coaching programming
• Design and deliver Saturday on-site classes, multi-week summer programming, and other workshops – onsite, in schools and communities
• Support all EDUC&CE programs including Bobby G High School Musical Theatre adjudication and workshops, arts integration deliverables, play writing workshops and play readings, preshow workshops for the Theatre Company season, talkbacks, community workshops, DPS Shakespeare Festival workshops, and Drama Day facilitation
• Partner with organization mission driven work groups to support cross-departmental collaboration
• Partner with the Director of Education and Curriculum Development on annual Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival to support program facilitation, scheduling with schools, educators, and teaching artists. Lead DPS Shakespeare workshop deliverables and school support
• Schedule, plan, and manage all aspects of the annual Regional Middle School and High School Playwriting Workshops and Competition including – but not limited to:
• Serving as point of contact for all schools, educators, students, teaching artists/staff participating in the program
• Continued collaboration with the Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement on the vision, strategy, and deliverables of the play writing program
• Annual collaborative review/revision of curriculum for workshops with Director of Education and Curriculum Development
• Statewide workshop and residency scheduling – in person and virtual – with schools and teaching artists; maintaining/updating workshop support materials; onboarding teaching artist(s) with workshop facilitation training; occasional needs for workshop facilitation
• Managing the submission, reading process and finalist process in collaboration with Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement and Director of Education and Curriculum Development; collection and management of contact information and final manuscripts; liaison with DCPA departments partnering with communication and production on the competition and its staged readings
• Managing the staged reading rehearsals and New Play…