Sunshine Coast Drama & Theatre Teacher Artist

Goat Track Theatre is recruiting an experienced Drama & Theatre Teacher Artist to join our permanent team on the Sunshine Coast. This is a secure, professional employee position with regular wages, paid annual leave, paid personal/sick leave, superannuation and ongoing employment security. You will work across our established theatre training programs at Noosa, Buderim, Coolum, Kawana, Baringa and Mudjimba, delivering drama and theatre education to primary-aged children and teenagers.

Key responsibilities:

• Teach GTKids, our primary-aged drama program, delivering acting, improvisation, character, storytelling, theatre-making and performance through our established curriculum.
• Teach Actor's Studio, our teenage actor-training program, developing performance technique, character, ensemble, text, improvisation and contemporary theatre practice.
• For candidates with appropriate professional experience: direct young performers, write, adapt or devise performance material, manage rehearsals, develop ensembles, plan and manage production timelines, and take responsibility for the artistic quality of final work within Fast Track Production.
• Create a warm, energetic, structured and creative learning environment where young people feel supported and challenged.
• Maintain clear expectations and high standards while building genuine rapport with students.
• Collaborate with the Goat Track production team and wider organisation.
• Participate in holiday productions, workshops, intensives, performance projects and special events as required.
• Contribute to program development and future Goat Track initiatives.

About you:

• Demonstrated relevant experience working with children and/or young people in a teaching, facilitation, theatre or performing arts environment.
• Professional background in drama, theatre, acting, directing, performing arts, drama education, theatre-making, youth arts, or writing/devising for performance.
• Genuine enjoyment working with children and teenagers.
• Warmth, humour and positive energy.
• Strong theatre, acting or performance knowledge.
• Confident and engaging facilitation skills.
• High emotional intelligence and empathetic communication.
• Ability to establish clear expectations and manage a classroom confidently.
• Organised, prepared and reliable with attention to detail.
• Hold, or be eligible to obtain, a current Queensland Blue Card.
• Reliable transport, as travel is required.
• Available for regular teaching during Queensland school terms, afternoon/evening teaching, and flexibility to teach within school holiday programming.

Benefits:

• Regular wages and salary.
• Paid annual leave.
• Paid personal/sick leave.
• Superannuation.
• Regular and predictable employment.
• Paid planning, preparation and other responsibilities associated with the role.
• Access to established curriculum, resources and organisational support.
• Professional development and opportunities to take on greater responsibility as the company grows.

Goat Track Theatre is a well established theatre and actor-training company established in 2009. The company delivers performing arts programs for young people across the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and Gold Coast and year on year is growing to meet demands. Our students range from primary-aged children taking their first steps into drama through to teenagers undertaking advanced actor training and full-scale theatre productions. We take young people seriously as artists. Our programs are structured and curriculum-driven, but our classrooms are energetic, playful and deeply human. We want our students to leave Goat Track as more confident performers, better collaborators and braver creative people.