Academic/Instructor Paid Assistant Professor – Theatrical Design UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance
Listed on 2026-08-30
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Creative Arts/Media
Performing Arts Roles/ Dance Instructor -
Education / Teaching
University Professor, Performing Arts Roles/ Dance Instructor, Academic
Location: Northern
UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Berkeley, CA
US
DESCRIPTIONThe Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of theatrical design, specifically one or more of the following areas: costume design, lighting design, scenic design, sound design, and or video/projection design for live performance. Areas of practice may include designing with new media (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality, sensors, live streaming) for performance.
Responsibilities will include pursuing a professional creative/research agenda; designing for the department’s performances; teaching courses in the department’s design curricula; mentoring and advising students; and participating in departmental activities and administrative service at college and campus levels.
The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) teaches performance as a mode of critical inquiry, innovation, creativity, knowledge production, and public engagement. Within our active experiential learning spaces, our students develop strong analytical and technical capacities. Our graduates are uniquely equipped to bring a just, creative, interconnected, and relational approach to the pressing challenges of our time. We believe that the making and sharing of public performance plays an essential role in a healthy and just society.
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