Guildford School of Acting

Location: Guildford
Salary: £32,236 to £39,609 per annum
Post Type: Full Time
Closing Date: Sunday 28 July 2019
Interview Date: Tuesday 13 August 2019

The University of Surrey is a global university with a world-class research profile and an enterprising spirit. Inventive and forward-thinking, its heritage shows a recurring theme of going its own way, doing things differently – and achieving notable results. 

Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is the conservatoire of the University of Surrey situated within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. As a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools (FDS) and the Alliance of Musical Theatre Conservatoires (AMTC), GSA is one of the UK’s leading conservatoires for intensive vocational performance and technical theatre training and innovative performance research. 

Established in 1935, GSA enjoys national and international renown as a leading conservatoire for performer training. GSA is a world-leading centre of excellence for musical theatre and actor musician training. The School has a diverse and vibrant community of performers, performance makers, creative practitioners and technicians graduating from its vocational training and research-led programmes each year.

We are seeking an exceptional individual to join the Department of Musical Theatre as a Teaching Fellow in Singing.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic teacher and practitioner who will contribute to the ongoing development of vocational learning, practice and scholarship at GSA. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of conservatoire level training and academic management processes. They will have a considerable professional profile either within the performing industry or the conservatoire sector and solid experience in team-leadership and management. They will have excellent knowledge of the training requirements for performers at the highest professional level to develop sustained careers.

The Musical Theatre Department contains five programmes in Musical Theatre performance: Foundation; BA Musical Theatre; BA Actor Musician; MA Musical Theatre and a two-year MFA in Musical Theatre. It also provides training for programmes within the Department of Acting & Performance.

The Musical Theatre Department’s graduate employment record is unmatched, with alumni in almost every West End musical along with roles in TV, film, national and international productions. As a new colleague at GSA you will join a thriving creative community, working with inspiring colleagues and students.

For an informal discussion please contact Kevin Michael Cripps, Head of Singing; k.cripps@gsa.surrey.ac.uk

For more information and to apply online, please download the further details and click on the 'apply online' button above.

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