The Kinkaid School is seeking an energetic, passionate, and experienced teacher to join the Visual and Performing Arts Program as a Theatre Teacher and Director. Reporting to the Director of Visual and Performing Arts, the Theatre Teacher and Director is responsible for teaching and directing in the middle and/or upper school.
The Kinkaid School is a co-educational non-sectarian day school enrolling over 1,400 students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Located on a sixty-five-acre campus in the heart of Houston, Texas, the School offers a thriving intellectual community in the midst of a vibrant, urban, diverse culture. The Visual and Performing Arts program benefits from outstanding resources including a 773-seat auditorium, a black box theatre, a dance studio, costume and scene shops and many classrooms and rehearsal spaces. Talented students and generous production budgets allow the School to mount an ambitious season of plays, musicals, dance performances, and concerts each year. The Theatre program currently mounts ten productions each academic year (2 major musicals, 3 major plays, 2 Theatre for Young Audiences productions, 2 musical theatre reviews, and an evening of student-directed one-acts). The full-time Theatre staff includes three acting teachers, two technical theatre directors, a technical theatre assistance, a Resident Costume Designer and Shop Manager, and a costume assistant.
