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Lecturer in Drama, Acting and Performance

De Montfort University - Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities

Location: Leicester
Salary: £39,355 to £42,882 Grade F
Hours: Part Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 3rd April 2025
Closes: 7th May 2025
Job Ref: A-63018849-02
 

Join DMU as a Lecturer across the Acting and Drama & Theatre Arts programmes. DMU is an ambitious, globally-minded institution with a relentless focus on delivering quality teaching and learning, and a campus-wide focus on providing a sector-leading student experience. A culturally rich university with a palpable commitment to the public good, it strives to maintain a stimulating and inclusive environment where staff and students are able to thrive.

Faculty / Directorate

BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts at De Montfort University sit within the School of Humanities and Performing Arts, in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities. Both programmes sit within a vibrant cluster of programmes that includes: BA (Hons) Dance and BA (Hons) Creative Writing; and a burgeoning research student community.

Our long standing, productive relationships with the creative industries supports our current and relevant curricula, connects students to professional networks and offers them valuable employment prospects.

Role

As a Lecturer in Drama, Acting and Performance, you will prepare, deliver and assess modules in your specialist area of actors training in one or more of the following areas:

  • Vocal training for actors
  • Voice, body, text
  • Understanding play texts
  • Singing for stage
  • Staging texts
  • Directing
  • Making theatre for professional contexts
  • Audition preparation
  • Arts marketing, management and promotion

You will make contributions to a range of modules through your experience of engaging with the professional creative industries. Additionally, you will engage in continuing professional development and use your research or professional practice to inform the curriculum and make a substantial contribution to the academic and reputational development of the subject area. Working closely with the Subject Group Lead, the Programme Leaders for the Acting and Drama and Theatre Arts programmes, and the subject teams, you will organise, deliver and evaluate the programme, modules and the students’ experience.

The role is on a permanent part time basis (22.2 hours per week). Due to Start 1st September 2025.

This role would be suitable for professionals, lecturers or experienced practitioners with a passion to train the next generation of actors.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for an experienced, dedicated, and forward-thinking Lecturer, who is excited to contribute to the ongoing development of both the BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Drama & Theatre Arts undergraduate programmes. With an undergraduate and postgraduate degree and/or significant professional practice, it would be preferable to have excellent knowledge of and practical experience in working in the professional creative industries sector.

You will be able to think strategically and creatively about curriculum design and delivery and possess excellent communication, inter-personal and networking skills, with a strong commitment to delivering an excellent student experience and to working within a team to build on the successes of the Drama & Theatre Arts programme and help to develop the reputation of the new Acting programme. You will be expected to make a substantial contribution to the academic and reputational development of the subject area, and to engage in professional practice and/or research activities.

The closing date for applications is on 7th May 2025 at midnight. Interviews will be scheduled in the week commencing 9th June 2025.

For informal enquiries about the position, please contact Rosie Garton, Associate Professor Drama, Acting and Performance: rosie.garton@dmu.ac.uk, 0116 3664878.

Closing date: 07 May 2025 

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