Theatre Teacher

High School Theater Educator

Waltham Public Schools is seeking a dynamic, creative, and student-centered High School Theater Educator to join the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Waltham High School. The successful candidate will provide standards-based theater instruction that centers student voice, storytelling, collaboration, cultural expression, artistic risk-taking, and personal growth. The position also includes teaching some advanced-level dance courses.

This position is designed for an educator who understands theater as a powerful form of communication, identity, creative expression, and community-building. The ideal candidate will support students in using performance, movement, writing, design, and production to explore stories about themselves, their communities, their experiences, and the world around them.

The theater program values the full creative process—not only the final performance. Students should develop foundational and advanced skills in acting, improvisation, directing, play writing, ensemble-building, technical theater, theatrical design, analysis, reflection, and production. The heart of the program is helping students create, interpret, revise, perform, and communicate meaning through theater.

The successful candidate will also teach advanced dance classes and should be prepared to support experienced dance students in developing technique, performance quality, choreography, movement composition, artistic voice, and reflective practice.

The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic, collaborative, and equity-oriented educator who is excited to work with a diverse high school student population, including students with disabilities and English Learners. The teacher will help create welcoming theater and dance classrooms where students of varied backgrounds and experience levels can participate fully, take creative risks, develop confidence, and see their identities and stories reflected in the work.