Edmonton): Assistant Professor Music Theatre – MacEwan University

About Us
Mac Ewan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton’s diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, Mac Ewan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, Mac Ewan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement.

We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.

Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 59 programs to more than 18,000 full- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, Mac Ewan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

The Opportunity
Mac Ewan University’s Theatre Department invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2023. This new faculty position will play an important role in the ongoing implementation of a new BFA in Music Theatre Performance, and may have opportunities for interdisciplinary teaching within the Faculty of Fine Arts and Communication.

Mac Ewan University’s Music Theatre Performance Program is seeking a theatre artist and educator specializing in Dance/Choreography and/or Movement Studies to fill a new full-time continuing position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will have a diverse skill-set that draws from their area(s) of specialization. There is also potential to teach additional courses in acting, interdisciplinary collaboration and/or directing.

The ability to work effectively in a student-centred, collegial environment is considered very important, and a vision towards developing new approaches to undergraduate music theatre education will be seen as an asset.

The Theatre Department is situated within the Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications of Mac Ewan University in Edmonton, Alberta. The Department is housed in Allard Hall, a new state-of-the-art building that is part of the University’s downtown campus. Mac Ewan Music Theatre Performance has been part of the city’s vibrant arts community since the early 1970s, and its newly developed 4-year BFA program builds on its reputation as one of the finest post-secondary music theatre training programs in Canada.

Qualifications Candidates will hold a minimum of an MFA (or an equivalent credential in their area of specialization) in conjunction with a strong record of professional experience. They will also demonstrate a commitment to undergraduate teaching, with an ongoing interest in creative practice/research. In addition, the successful candidate will have a commitment to innovative pedagogy and building equitable, diverse and inclusive teaching practices.

Questions about this position may be addressed to Dawn Sadoway, Program Coordinator, Music Theatre Performance, at  .

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