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[Ken Martin]

Job Title:  Assistant/Associate Professor - Acting Teacher
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience

Job Information:

POSITION:    This position resides within a large undergraduate and graduate
acting program with 7 acting faculty and approximately 125 acting
undergraduates.


RESPONSIBILITIES:   Teach acting in a revised MFA Acting program with a
classical emphasis and sharing teaching responsibilities in the School's
large undergraduate acting sequence.  Directing opportunities are possible.
Other duties include serving on school, college, and university committees.
Candidate must be committed to collegiality and collaboration with
colleagues in developing School goals and objectives.


QUALIFICATIONS:    MFA in a Theatre discipline or equivalent professional
experience.  Preferred qualifications are substantial professional
experience with a commitment to an ongoing professional career, and two
years of university-level teaching experience.


RANK AND SALARY:    Tenure-track, 9 month appointment at the Assistant
Professor or Associate Professor rank. Salary is competitive and
commensurate with experience and qualifications.


DATE OF APPOINTMENT:    August 16, 2007.


REVISED MFA: ACTING:     The School of Theatre is committed to a revised MFA
in Theatre: Acting with a classical emphasis and the goal of creating a new
generation of artists prepared to interpret classical, linear, and
non-linear language based texts.  Actors from this program will have a
facility with language, a deep and strong connection to their physical life,
a strong, supple, and flexible vocal instrument, and penetrating insight
into the action of Dramatic texts.  The current MFA in Theatre: Acting is on
hiatus and is expected to invite students for the fall 2008 semester.




THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE:    The School of Theatre is a large
production-oriented program that offers the BA/BS, MA/MS, and MFA degrees.
The School also includes an undergraduate program in dance. A member of the
University/Resident Theatre Association and accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Theatre, the School has 30 faculty with over 350
undergraduate majors and 30 graduate students.  Performance facilities are
excellent with a state of-the-art proscenium theatre in the new Center for
the Performing Arts, a small thrust theatre, and a flexible black-box studio
theatre.  The School of Theatre also is the home of the
nationally-recognized Illinois Shakespeare Festival, an U/RTA Equity
contract theatre.  Illinois State University, founded in 1857, is located in
the central region of the state within the Twin Cities of
Bloomington-Normal, approximately two and a half hours from both Chicago and
St. Louis.


THE COMMUNITY:    Bloomington-Normal is a vibrant community of more than
120,000 people.  In addition to Illinois State, there are three other major
higher education institutions.  The area prospers from a diverse economy
with agriculture, insurance, education, and light and heavy manufacturing.
The world headquarters for State Farm Insurance and a major Mitsubishi auto
manufacturing plant call Bloomington-Normal home.  The community has two
highly regarded major public school systems.  Recreational opportunities
abound both in and close to Bloomington-Normal.  Bloomington is in the
process of creating a major downtown revitalization program based on art and
culture.  Due to its central location, the community has excellent air,
rail, and road transportation.

Illinois State is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university
encouraging diversity.


APPLICATION:     Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin March 1, 2007 and continue until position
is filled. Send letter of application, current vitae, statement on
philosophy of teaching, and contact information for three or more references
to:


                                                                Don LaCasse,
Director
                                                                Illinois
State University
                                                                5700 School
of Theatre
                                                                Normal, IL
61790-5700



Review Begin Date:
 March 01, 2007

Ann Haugo
Assistant Professor
School of Theatre
Campus Box 5700
Illinois State University
Normal IL 61790

(309) 438-3955
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