Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting

The Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 68,000 - 70,000; Full time

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Job summary

The University of Florida School of Theatre + Dance invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting with a focus on movement-based actor training. The role includes teaching undergrad and grad courses, movement coaching for productions, and potential directing opportunities.

We seek candidates who integrate movement and embodiment into contemporary performance and who contribute to a dynamic, student-centered community.

Qualifications

• Terminal degree (MFA, PhD, or PhD ABD) in Theatre or closely related field, or equivalent qualifications.
• Potential for national or international recognition and achievement in the field.
• Evidence of collaboration with faculty, students, and staff, and commitment to inclusive practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead movement training to develop actor’s physical, expressive, and embodied skills.
• Teach undergraduate and graduate courses, including movement, stage combat, and possibly acting.
• Mentor BFA and MFA students for career preparation.
• Provide movement coaching for School productions and perform fight direction/intimacy direction for multiple productions yearly.
• Contribute to recruitment and retention of acting students and participate in program community.

Skills

Movement training

Acting

Stage combat

Teaching university courses

Mentoring MFA/BFA students

Collaboration and teamwork

Education

Terminal degree in Theatre or related field

Job description

Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting

University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance

PO Box 115900
FL 32611

Deadline

Rolling

Posted

Oct 16, 2026

Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting

Position: Full-time, 9-month tenure track, promotion-accruing faculty position

Date of Expected Hire: August 16, 2027

Salary: $68,000-$70,000 with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package

The School of Theatre + Dance seeks an Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting with a specialization in movement and physical approaches to actor training. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate students, with primary responsibility for movement training that develops the actor’s physical, expressive, and embodied skills. The candidate will also teach undergraduate and graduate stage combat courses in a variety of theatrical weapon styles and may teach acting courses and professional development labs. Additional teaching responsibilities may include non-majors courses such as Oral Interpretation of Literature, and courses in the University of Florida Quest program. The successful candidate will also provide mentoring to BFA and MFA students to prepare them for successful careers in the industry.

The School is especially interested in candidates who bring a progressive perspective to actor training and who integrate movement, embodiment, and physical approaches into contemporary performance training. We seek an individual who will contribute to a student-centered community committed to professional development and scholarship, innovation and flexibility, and teamwork and collaboration.

The successful candidate will contribute to the recruitment and retention of BFA and MFA acting students within a vibrant professional theatre training program at one of the nation’s leading public research universities. Additional creative responsibilities include movement coaching for School productions, as well as fight direction and theatrical violence and/or intimacy direction for approximately four productions each academic year. There is also an opportunity to direct School productions.

The position also includes participation in school, college, and/or university service and other related duties as assigned. Typical teaching loads for tenure-line faculty in Theatre Studies & Performance are 5–9 credits per semester, generally distributed as 5–6 credits in one semester and 7–9 credits in the other. Most courses in the School are 2 or 3 credits.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.

SCHOOL OF THEATRE + DANCE: The light-filled Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion is home to the School of Theatre + Dance (SoTD). The School’s international full-time faculty of 35 recognized artists and researchers, complemented by adjunct and guest faculty and staff, including full- and part-time professionals. The School offers MFA curricula in acting and in design, which includes scene design, lighting design and costume design; BFA programs in acting, musical theatre, and theatrical production with concentrations in costume, digital media, lighting, scenic, and sound; and a BA with concentrations in general theatre, stage management, and theatre management. The School features two degree programs in dance designed to develop the individual voice of the dance artist, a BFA and a BA. Approximately 200 students major in the artistically diverse curricula of the School of Theatre + Dance. Through its production program, outreach and innovative programming, the School of Theatre + Dance provides multiple cultural opportunities annually to thousands of members of the University and the greater community. The University of Florida is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Dance and the National Association of Schools of Theatre.For more information, visit www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance .

THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: The College of the Arts is an engine of transformation that generates paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond, while nurturing adaptability, innovation, and excellence. We foster an environment where novel creative practice, leading research, and experiential learning thrive. Our students, faculty, and staff interrogate and respond to the ever-changing relationship between technology and the human spirit. We prepare future leaders in artistic professions and creative industries, while developing student capacity for interdisciplinary scholarship that serves and engages local and global communities. The College offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. Approximately 1,600 students are pursuing majors in degrees offered by the College of the Arts under the direction of 150 faculty members in its three accredited schools— the School of Art + Art History, the School of Music, and the School of Theatre + Dance, and in the Center for Arts in Medicine, the Digital Worlds Institute, and the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship. In addition, the college comprises the University Galleries, and the University level of the New World School of the Arts in Miami.

The University of Florida: The University of Florida is a comprehensive learning institution built on a land grant foundation. We are The Gator Nation, a diverse community dedicated to excellence in education and research and shaping a better future for Florida, the nation and the world. Our mission is to enable our students to lead and influence the next generation and beyond for economic, cultural and societal benefit. UF is a graduate research institution with more than 50,000 students and membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Gainesville, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s most livable cities, is located midway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Together, the University and the community comprise the educational, medical and cultural center of North Central Florida.

In addition to salary, the University of Florida (UF) offers low cost State Health plans, a number of Dental plans to fit you and your family’s needs, and Vision. Domestic partner coverage through GatorCare is also available. Optional plans such as life, disability, legal and accident insurance are also available.

Explore UF’s benefits options here: FACULTY Benefits

Requirements

The successful candidate must meet all of the following:

• Terminal degree (MFA, PhD, or PhD ABD) in Theatre or closely related field, or equivalent qualifications based on professional experience.
• Potential for record of achievement in the field at a national or international level, in alignment with the unit’s tenure and promotion criteria.
• Evidence of successful collaboration and collegiality with faculty, students, and staff.
• Evidence of skill in designing and facilitating academic work that advances curiosity, respect, open intellectual discourse, and the welcome incorporation and well-being of all in an environment of complex differences.