Just passing this along credit goes to The Actors Fund: The East LA Classic Theatre has been engaged to provide drama residencies to schools (k-12) in Lawrence, Mass. The residencies will be two hours a day, four days a week (Mon-Thur) starting after labor day and ending December 15. They seek those with teaching artist experience, especially those with playwriting and production experience. All applicants must be able to make the commitment to work four days a week. At this point, East LA does not know the exact hour schedule. The pay is $40 an hour plus mileage (between $10 and $20 a day.) If you are interested, please send a teaching artist resume not a performing resume (I have attached a sample and instructions) to Robin Lilley [email protected]. Please copy [email protected] on the email. I also welcome you to visit The Actors Fund website actorsfund.org. We are there for you! Katherine Schrier, National Director Actors Fund Work Program 729 Seventh Avenue, 11th Floor | New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.354.5480 The Actors Fund, for everyone in entertainment actorsfund.org The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that helps professionals in performing arts and entertainment in times of need, crisis or transition. Resume examples: TEACHING ARTISTS RESUMES - 2 General Notes: • Go for an uncluttered look. • As a rule, if the top third of the page attracts attention, employers will read further. • The resume should retain the flavor of your individual/artistic talent. • Creative but legible font. • Provide your performance or other entertainment related resume along with your teaching resume if you desire. • At the interview, be prepared to present up to 30 min. of a 5-Day Lesson Plan of your choice. The TEACHING ARTIST Resume by Section Headings: 1) Personal Heading:Name Address Phone # Email • Bold your name, address, phone # and email using size 14 font for your name and size 12 font for your address, contact # and email. • Size 11 font is used for the remainder of your resume. • Fit your address all on one line including the zip code - gives you an extra line. • Section headings can be centered on the page or flush left. • Section headings are bolded and underlined, or followed by colon. Have a lot of experience? After your Profile, list an additional sub-category: Areas of Expertise 2) The Summary or Profile: • What you say here informs others who and what you are about: it helps define your strengths and interests and specialty/ies, which are then elaborated and supported by the remainder of the resume. • Your Profile or Summary should retain the flavor of your individual/artistic temperament. A good Profile is usually no less than 2 lines and rarely more than four, and includes: 1. The age group(s) you have taught. 2. Your area of expertise, for example; integrating music, curriculum development, cultural diversity, or conflict/resolution. 3. Particular skills/talents/interests/hidden areas of expertise. 4. Your approach to working with students. 3) Professional Experience or Teaching Experience: The format: bold your job title or position and the organization, but do not bold the city, state or year. • Your position or title appears flush with Left margin. • Dates of employment work best flush right. • Describe what you did with the organization or school. • Be specific asking who, what, when, where and why. Similar tasks for different employers work best when worded differently. 4) In some case you might find it necessary to include other categories such as Related Experience and/or Other Professional Experience and/or Relevant Experience in addition to your Teaching Artist background. Related Experience: Useful when you have little or no teaching experience. a) Be inventive and show action when describing duties. b) Define what you did. Show in what way your acquired skills or experience supports your teaching experience. Other Relevant Experience: Useful if you want to add teaching experience that doesn’t apply to arts in education but indicates you have had experience as an instructor. Or you might have arts administrative experience that is relevant. 5) Education Bachelor of Arts, History - Cum Laude - awarded Peabody Yale University, New Haven, CT 6) Affiliations and /or Associations: Awards can be added here. 7) Skills: Include computer and technical skills, languages, instruments and also driver’s license. P:\Shared\Actors Work Program\Job developer\Sample Resumes\Teaching Artists Resumes instructions.doc HELEN TROY, TEACHING ARTIST 5 Trojan Horse Way Brooklyn, NY 12345 H: 718-222-1234 C: 728-333-5678 helen@helentroy helentroy PROFILE Teaching Artist with a mission for Literacy. Strong Social Studies background. Informed use of Multiple Intelligences; experienced in Curriculum Development. Work best with K-8. Additional Areas of Expertise Masks/clowningAmerican RevolutionAlaska Story-tellingCivil WarShakespeare GuitarMimeImprovisation TEACHING ARTIST EXPERIENCE Teaching Artist/Performer, Downtown Public School, NYC2007-present Project driven residencies for 4th and 5th graders in Literacy/Social Sciences: • Demonstrate Elizabethan Clowning techniques to introduce Shakespeare • Examine Midsummer Nights Dream: re-enacted scenes in a modern context (e.g. discovered cultural parallels with Hip Hop) • Using the Sonnets as a base, teach story technique and practice Conflict Resolution and collaboration skills by creating skits in small groups Teaching Artist, Upper Manhattan Youth Theatre, Bronx, NY2005-07 • Create workshop entitled Creating Myth for Junior High Students, utilizing Joseph Campbell’s “Hero Theme.” • Students integrated symbol, movement and Shakespeare’s writings to craft and perform original scenes RELATED EXPERIENCE Activities Director, Laguna Summer Camp, Laguna Beach, CASummer 2005 • Conduct weekly jam sessions with staff to troubleshoot and integrate activities with learning in a fun way • Monitor team heads of activities including mime, acting, tennis, swimming, book club • Develop monthly hands-on projects with visiting professional artists Raised in the Alaska outback, developed special expertise in Alaskan arts and crafts: also special knowledge and skill in storytelling on climate, traditions, and civilization’s impact on natural resources EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS Arts in Education Training, The Actors Fund, NYC BA, Music/Psychology, California State University, Northridge Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild P:\Shared\Actors Work Program\Job developer\Sample Resumes\Teaching Artist resume.doc
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:56:30 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015