Teaching Artist

Pink Fang is hiring Teaching Artists for residencies for Spring 2027.
 
Secret Histories is Pink Fang’s Arts-in-Education Program. This year, they reached over 500 students in 23 classrooms across nine New York City public schools. They’re now looking for Teaching Artists to lead residencies for next year. Secret Histories is adapted from Pink Fang’s interview-based Undesirable Elements series.

Their K-12 Arts-in-Education Program spans in-school, afterschool, and one-day workshops. The curriculum incorporates peer interview techniques, writing exercises, and drama activities to explore themes of identity, place, and belonging, and introduce theatrical tools for self- and community-based reflection. Over the span of the residency, Teaching Artists collaborate with the students to create a collective and original performance, platforming the stories of the students and their communities. Participants make discoveries about themselves, their peers, and the power of theatrical storytelling to build empathy across diverse experiences.

Teaching Artists collaborate with each other (if co-facilitating), classroom teachers, the education staff and the students in implementing the arts-in-education residencies in schools across the New York City boroughs (currently Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn). Typically, the residencies span 10 weeks involving approximately 20 teaching hours in the Spring semester. Throughout the residencies, TAs guide the students through a process of devising personal-narrative driven performance, during which the TAs foster community, empathy, ensemble skills, and cross-cultural understanding, as well as the development of confident self-expression for each individual student, particularly in their writing and performance/public speaking skills. Most TAs lead one to three residencies in a given school year.

Selected applicants are invited to an open house, followed by paid training in Pink Fang’s curriculum this fall.

Requirements

Pink Fang is looking for teaching artists with at least two years in youth education, training in trauma-informed practice and differentiated instruction, and a background in devised, documentary, or community-engaged theater. Bilingual fluency is a plus, particularly Mandarin/English or Spanish/English. Most residencies run about 10 weeks in the spring semester, in schools across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn.

Application Instructions

Read more about the opportunity here. Applications close on Friday, August 14.

Use this form to apply.