OUR MISSION

Roundabout celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future.

OUR WORK

We produce familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals with the ability to take artistic risk as only a not-for-profit can.

We discover talented playwrights and provide them long-term artistic support to contribute to the future of the theatrical canon.

We reduce the barriers—financial, physical and cultural—that can inhibit theatergoing.

We collaborate with a diverse team of artists to identify programming for consideration.

We build transformational education experiences that enhance teacher practice, deepen student learning, and ignite the futures of young people through career training and placement.

We capture and archive over five decades of production history as an open resource for artists, scholars, and our community

OUR VALUES AND VISION

As we begin to transform our institution, we acknowledge our responsibility for perpetuating and, now, correcting injustices in our industry and for building an American theatre that thrives on diversity. The following principles comprise the core of our strategies—from our internal practices, to our public-facing work, to our behavior within our community. They apply to Roundabout’s administrative and production staffs, leadership, board, artists, educators, donors, students, and audiences. We live and promote these values:

EQUITY. We work to dismantle all forms of systemic oppression. We mandate anti-racism and inclusion in our workplaces, in our programming, and among our stakeholders.
CREATIVITY. We produce theatre and build programs that create a dialogue between past and present, and between art and audiences, while prioritizing innovation and advocacy as only a not-for-profit can.
COLLABORATION. We promote communication and transparency as essential for a caring workplace and for every staff member—and the company as a whole—to reach their potential.
LEARNING. We practice a culture of learning, for ourselves, for our communities, and for the evolution of our field. Our institution and our industry will grow only from an ongoing and open exchange of ideas.
BELONGING. We reflect and impact our city by making our workspaces and our shows welcoming and accessible to all as we build trusting and lasting relationships.
ACCOUNTABILITY. We charge ourselves and our stakeholders at all levels to embrace and demonstrate these principles, and encourage our peers and our public to hold us responsible as we move towards a just and inclusive future.

Roundabout Theatre Company, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit theatres, seeks dynamic professional artists of all theatrical disciplines to join a vibrant roster of collaborative teaching artists.

Education at Roundabout offers programs that use the stimulating power of the arts to inspire and engage. Our goal is to use theatre to promote social equity through three core program areas:

• Teaching & Learning: Partnerships with students and teachers throughout the five boroughs of New York City
• Career Training: Career and Workforce development programs for the next generation of dynamic theatre professionals
• Community Partnerships: connects to our local communities to ensure that Roundabout is welcoming and inclusive to all

While all artistic disciplines are welcome to apply, we are specifically in need of teaching artists who are bilingual/multilingual, have technical theatre skills, or are willing to travel to the outer boroughs.

What you may do

Roundabout Theatre Company Teaching Artists develop curriculum and facilitate sessions for various populations including students in grades 6–12, educators, families, audiences, and other groups. Work is primarily distributed through in-school residencies, on-site workshops, and audience engagement events. Programming occurs across NYC’s 5 boroughs. Roundabout Teaching Artists sometimes teach their craft, but more frequently use their craft as a vehicle to teach leadership skills, develop social emotional competencies, build community, or connect to the content of another academic subject.

What you bring to the role

• Professional skills, training, or experience in one or more theatrical disciplines
• Experience or interest in teaching diverse populations
• Embodied values of racial and social justice
• Availability for assignments September 2024 through August 2025
• A commitment to paid training sessions (see dates below)
• Flexibility to work occasional evening and weekend hours

It’s a plus if you have

• Prior teaching or teaching artist experience
• Experience partnering with NYC public schools
• Experience co-facilitating with other teaching artists and/or classroom teachers
• Ability to teach in languages other than English
• Willingness to travel to the outer boroughs
• Technical theatre skillset
• Experience collaborating with people with disabilities

What you should know

• Teaching Artists are hired as part time employees. Starting hourly rate is $50 per hour for all planning/facilitation and $35 per hour for all required training and administrative tasks. This typically looks like 1 hour of planning for each hour of facilitation.
• This position reports to the Education Manager, Teaching Artists.
• Scheduling of work is flexible and is based on departmental needs.
• Teaching Artists are credited on curricular materials, in Playbills and on our website.
• Teaching Artists accrue safe and sick leave at the rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum of 56 hours of safe and sick leave each Calendar Year.
• Occasional professional development opportunities are offered. Roundabout sponsors registration and pays $35 per hour for attendance.
• Theatre-related benefits include periodic complimentary and discount tickets.
• Formal performance reviews are conducted annually and include 360-degree feedback.
• Roundabout retains legal ownership of the product of employee work. No work product created while employed by the Company can be claimed, construed, or presented as property of the individual, even after employment by the Company has been terminated or the relevant project completed.
• Roundabout supplies all materials and/or equipment required for assignments.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Please submit an application at https://www.tfaforms.com/5114319

Applications should be submitted by the end of day on April 30, 2024. Applicants chosen for consideration will be invited to an interview. If selected, interviews will be followed by a group audition where each applicant presents a teaching sample. Interviews will be held over Zoom, and auditions will be held in-person in midtown Manhattan.

Applicants must be available for all the following dates:

• Group audition session (paid $35/hour), May 21 or June 4, 1 – 4pm
• Orientation and training (paid $35/hour)
  • Theatrical Teaching Institute: July 28 – August 2, 10am – 5pm
  • Fall Lab: Sep 24 – 26, 10:30am – 5:30pm

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Karim Muasher, karimm@roundabouttheatre.org

As part of our application process, we ask that candidates consider completing a survey. This is voluntary and survey information will be anonymous and kept separate from application materials. Take the survey here.