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Open Position: Adjunct Faculty –Playwriting, Fall 2025 semester
Department of Theatre and Visual Arts, Fordham University
Fordham University seeks a skilled, experienced part-time non-tenure track adjunct faculty to teach Playwriting, a required course for the playwrights and a major elective within the Theatre Program and/or co-teach a foundational theatre major course, Collaboration, a mandatory course for incoming first-years in the program for Fall 2025
Fordham Theatre is committed to cultivating an expansive vision for the program that assures its preeminent standing, elevates its profile as an innovative leader in the field of undergraduate theater training, and centers social justice in all aspects of its work. The Theatre Program is based at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan and is housed academically within a department alongside Visual Art.
Responsibilities include guiding students in theatre principles and techniques, preparing course materials and assessments aligned with the curriculum, conducting lectures and workshops, mentoring students while fostering a creative learning environment, and bringing industry experience of current trends into the classroom. This professor teaches may teach up to two courses: Collaboration I, Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00-12:45pm; and/or Playwriting, Tuesdays 11:30am-2:15 PM beginning Fall 2025 (semester runs August 27-December 9, 2025)
Course Description: THEA 3700 - Playwriting
This playwriting workshop is the cornerstone of the playwriting program. It intentionally welcomes writers of many levels of experience to one dynamic space. The goals of the workshop are to teach basic craft and create an environment that will guide the writers' explanation of their individual voices. We concentrate on four major issues: storytelling, character, structure, and language.
Course Description: THEA 2080: Collaboration I
This course is designed to provide the student with 1) tools for effective and meaningful collaboration, including strengthening communication skills, critical thinking skills and creative problem solving skills; 2) a basic understanding of acting, directing, designing, stage management and playwriting; 3) opportunities for hands-on experience in all disciplines; 4) opportunities for how to give and receive critical feedback and offer meaningful reflection of theatrical practices.
Part-time NTT instructors at Fordham are represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and certain terms of employment, including minimum per course rates, are set by the Adjunct Faculty Collective Bargaining Agreement. The per-course rate for new instructors as of March 24, 2025 is $8,500. Part-time NTT faculty may teach a maximum of two courses per semester at either or both of Fordham's two main campuses at Rose Hill (Bronx) and Lincoln Center (Manhattan). Both Playwriting and Collaboration I is currently only offered at the Lincoln Center campus.
Qualifications
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A Terminal degree (MFA in Theatre, specifically in Playwriting).
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A minimum of one year experience teaching relative subject matter at the college or university level.
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Experience successfully working with and teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students from a range of theatrical experiences
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Demonstrated commitment to student-centered teaching and has a joy and passion in sharing knowledge and learning with students.