Assistant Professor of Practice in Acting (Professional Track)

Assistant Professor of Practice in Acting (Professional
Track)

College/School/Unit: College of Fine Arts

Department: Department of Theatre & Dance

Posted: Oct 15, 2026

Apply By: Open until filled

Description

The Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at
Austin invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-track
Assistant Professor of Practice in Acting, specializing in voice
and speech. The successful candidate will teach voice and speech
for the actor at multiple levels, teach accents and dialects, and
coach voice, speech, and dialect work for department productions.
Expertise in one or more of the following is also welcome: scene
study, Shakespeare and heightened language, movement for the actor,
acting for the camera. The successful candidate will have the
requisite experience and knowledge necessary to support students'
entrance into the professional world.

We seek a colleague who balances professional rigor with
human-centered, consent-based practices that prioritize the vocal
health of the developing actor, consistent with the
student-centered mission of a public university.

The successful candidate will join the faculty of the Acting Area,
which offers BA in Theatre and Dance and BFA in Acting degrees. The
Acting Area's priority is to cultivate well-rounded artist citizens
with a broad range of skills who can compete in and contribute to
the shifting landscape of the performing arts and entertainment
fields with agency and innovation. Faculty encourage students to
develop concrete acting skills rooted in theatre while applying
those skills across a variety of contexts and disciplines. The
Acting Area supports and is supported by programs in Dance;
Directing and Playwriting; Drama and Theatre for Youth and
Communities/Theatre Education; Live Design and Production; and
Performance as Public Practice.

As an integral part of the thriving creative culture of Austin,
Texas, the Department of Theatre and Dance offers an array of
programs to prepare artists, scholars, and teachers to make
profound contributions to theatre and dance through engaging study,
interdisciplinary collaboration, and exceptional performance
experiences. The department has 35 full-time faculty members and 18
full-time staff members and is housed in well-equipped facilities,
which include black box, proscenium, and lab theatres; teaching and
practice spaces; and state-of-the-art design and computing labs.
The department produces six large scale and numerous small
productions per year, including the largest student-driven biennial
New Works Festival in the country.

Minimum salary: $63,000, nine-month appointment

Start Date: August 2027

For additional inquiries email theatreanddance@utexas.edu.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Terminal degree in acting or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to teach multiple levels of voice for the

actor and accents/dialects courses.

• Demonstrated ability to coach voice and speech for the stage

and/or camera.

• Significant training in one or more of the following, or

comparable, vocal methods: Linklater, Rodenburg, Berry,
Knight-Thompson.

Preferred Qualifications:

• History of working in the field of acting, as an actor,

director, text coach, and/or voice and speech coach.

• Demonstrated ability to proactively engage students in emerging

professional development and employment strategies related to
acting.

• Demonstrated interest and/or experience in human-centered,

consent-based practices in acting training.

• Administrative experience sufficient to maximize opportunities

for engagement with our learning communities and to competently
fulfill service requirements to the Acting Area, Theatre and Dance
Department, and University.

• An expansive history of work in the fields of live performance

sufficient to engage productively with colleagues in content areas
of the department other than acting.

The selection committee encourages applications from candidates who
do not meet all of the preferred qualifications.

Application Instructions

Review of applications will begin November 30, 2026. The position
will remain open until filled.

To apply for the position, please submit the following documents to
Interfolio:

• A letter of application that speaks to the required and

preferred qualifications of the position

• Curriculum Vitae
• Link or links to examples of professional engagement in the

field such as professional website, documentation of creative work,
teaching portfolio, written scholarship, etc.

• A list of three professional references and contact information

(letters will be requested for short-listed candidates)

Additional materials, such as full letters of support, may be
requested at a later date.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all
applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and
affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of
equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the
basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability,
religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and
activities, and admissions.

To apply, visit https://faculty.utexas.edu/career/194380

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