Assistant Professor - Acting; Department of Theater

Assistant Professor - Acting (Department of Theater)

The Department of Theater at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) seeks applications for a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor of Acting to start in August 2026.

The ideal candidate will be a dedicated professional who will serve as Co-Head of Acting, working closely with current faculty to sustain and advance an integrated acting pedagogy across both undergraduate and graduate programs. This individual will teach acting courses; mentor and advise students on their projects and pre-professional goals; foster and connect students with professional opportunities in theater and media arts;

maintain professional creative practice in the field of acting and acting pedagogy; and contribute meaningful service to the department, the college, and the profession.

• Teach undergraduate and graduate acting courses in an area of acting specialization(s).
• Coordinate and manage contingent acting faculty in partnership with current faculty to ensure cohesive curriculum and support.
• Partner with co-head to oversee auditions and recruitment of acting students and applicants.
• Work with co-head to manage professional development and networking of the department’s acting students.
• Serve in the shared governance structure at all levels of the College.
• Provide student guidance, advisement, and mentoring in coordination with current faculty to ensure aligned pedagogical support.
• Continue to participate in professional performing arts activities within the area of expertise to fulfill tenure requirements.

The Brooklyn College Department of Theater values the training of the next generation of theater artists and leaders. We are an anti-racist, equitable and inclusive program that reflects and responds to the diverse identities, cultures and experiences of our students. We offer comprehensive undergraduate and graduate degree programs which offer a transformative, affordable, rigorous educational experience. We develop and inspire each theater maker to embrace and express their unique artistic voice.

There is a strong departmental focus on civic engagement, and creating work aimed at cultivating self-knowledge, intellectual rigor, and cultural awareness. We welcome applications from individuals who value working with a diverse student body and will help us to sustain and expand departmental commitments to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism.

Brooklyn College serves students from as many as 150 countries who speak over 100 languages and dialects and thus constitutes a vibrant microcosm of the rich diversity and energy that characterizes the borough of Brooklyn and the greater New York City area itself. Its mission features “a special commitment to educate immigrant and first‑generation college students from the diverse communities that make up our city and state.”

The college ethos is strongly invested in the educational and career success of a population that encompasses a multiplicity of nationalities, ethnicities, religions, cultures and languages. We are committed to fostering a spirit of camaraderie and shared ideals across the entire spectrum of our varied constituency. By accessing a first‑class and affordable college education in an inclusive and nurturing intellectual milieu, our students acquire the skills, confidence, and global mindedness that allow them to thrive in a rapidly changing, unpredictable marketplace of ideas that is increasingly mindless of borders and spans the gamut of cultures and vernaculars.

To this end, the college seeks faculty who are eager to engage with the diversity of our student body and have a demonstrated commitment to inclusion and heterogeneity through teaching, research and/or service. We seek to recruit and retain faculty who reflect the mosaic of our student population. Successful candidates will bring their unique creativity, sensitivity, insights and perspectives to a community that welcomes innovation in scholarship and teaching.

Together we will model the finest that a public urban liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies college can be…