Tenure-track position available August 20, 2010.  Responsibilities:  teach courses in lighting design, sound design, lighting technology, stagecraft, and other related design courses at the undergraduate level; supervise student lighting/sound designers in assigned productions; produce designs for selected department productions; work in collaboration with theatre and dance faculty, staff, and students in facilitating the production program, including two dance concerts per season. 

Minimum qualifications:  MFA in design completed by August 19, 2010; one year of teaching experience; excellent communication and organizational skills; computer competency in stage lighting/sound applications; ability to work collegially within a liberal arts setting. 

Preferred qualifications:  MFA in lighting and/or sound completed by completed by August 19, 2010;  significant professional experience as lighting and/or sound designer; five years of teaching experience at the university/college level.  Excellent benefits, including retiree health care and 100% pension contribution for eligible employees. 

The department is a BFA/BA/BS undergraduate-only program with 335 theatre majors and 55 dance majors and a full-time faculty of 16 theatre and 6 dance.  Theatre and Dance programs are NAST & NASD accredited. 

Send one-page letter of application, one-page philosophy of teaching in a BFA/BA/BS setting with pre-professional standards, curriculum vitae, the names and contact information for three references, certified transcript of the highest degree earned, and a limited portfolio which includes 5 color plates and/or digital photographs representative of the candidate's design work to: 

Kip Shawger, Chair
Lighting Designer/Sound Designer/
Teacher Screening Committee
Department of Theatre and Dance
Ball State University
Muncie, IN  47306

Review of applications will begin November 9, 2009, and will continue until the position is filled.  www.bsu.edu/theatre

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