Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, seeks part-time instructors for courses to be offered in the 2025-26 academic year. Course titles, descriptions, schedule, and pay are as follows.
Acting for the Camera
Working on camera, whether for television, film, commercials, or webcasting, involves specific techniques over and above good stage preparation. This course prepares actors for work in these media, providing practice in each specific area and a variety of styles. Students will leave class with a sample reel for promotion. Recommended for actors and for aspiring film and video directors. This 2-credit course meets for seven weeks, Mondays/Wednesdays 2:15 PM – 3:50 PM, 8/25/2025 – 10/10/2025.
Pay for this course is $2500.
Gender, Sexuality, and Performance
This course examines gender in and as performance, bringing feminist and queer studies lenses and contemporary theories of gender construction to a variety of performances and texts. Topics will include representations of gender and sexuality within the canon; construction of gender through performances on stage and in everyday life; and the challenging of roles and assumptions through dynamic choices in playwriting, directing, acting, and design.
This 4-credit course meets Monday through Friday in our January term, 1:00 PM – 5:15 PM, 1/22/2026 – 1/22/2026. Pay for this course is $5000.
Applied Theatre Workshop
This course will provide an active, experiential introduction to key forms of Applied Theatre including Playback, Reminiscence Theatre, Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre, and approaches to devising theatre for and with communities. After all of these forms have been introduced and explored, the class will break into small production companies, each of which will pursue their chosen way of working for the second half of the semester, offering their work to a local group or audience. This 4-credit course meets Tuesdays/Thursdays through spring semester, 9:40 AM – 11:15 AM, 1/26/2026 – 5/12/2026. Pay for this course is $5000.
Survey of Applied Theatre
This course introduces students to the breadth and effectiveness of Applied Theatre throughout recent history; engages with complex issues of representation, privacy, authorship, and authority as these issues pertain to performance and communities; and challenges students to conceive their own models for employing theatre as an agent of change.
This 4-credit course meets Monday evenings through spring semester, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM, 1/26/2026 – 5/12/2026. Pay for this course is $5000.
To apply for one or more of these instructor positions, send resume or CV, along with a brief cover letter highlighting relevant experience, by May 5. Please send materials by surface mail to the following address:
Chair, Theatre & Dance, Box A-131
Pacific University
2043 College Way
Forest Grove, OR 97116
More Info
http://www.pacificu.edu
Salary
$2500 for half-semester classes, $5000 for full semester classes
Location
Forest Grove, Oregon
Contact Email
theatredance@contact.pacificu.edu