2025-2026 Middle School Theater Teacher (Grades 6-8)

The Covenant School, an independent Christian Liberal Arts & Sciences school in Charlottesville, Virginia, is seeking a dedicated and dynamic educator to join our Middle School arts faculty starting in the 2025-26 school year. Our school, which serves over 750 students from Pre-K through Grade 12, is a gospel-centered community of faith and learning, rooted in the Western Liberal Arts tradition, and focused on the formation of the whole person—mind, body, and soul. Our faculty leads with an incarnational approach that seeks to equip and inspire students to live well through service to God and others.

The Middle School Theater Teacher will teach students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 in a sequence of semester-long, required Introduction to Theater courses, as well as a middle school production elective. The sequence builds year upon year, covering physical movement, gesture and characterization; voice projection, expression and diction; story and plot; character realization; and the basic structure and language of Western theater traditions.

The ideal candidate will possess experience with directorial work on a variety of productions and be eager to work together with a creative team of colleagues. Candidates should possess a mature, Christian faith and an educational philosophy that is consistent with The Covenant School’s mission statement and Christian Liberal Arts & Sciences pedagogy. Most importantly, the candidate should be passionate about working with adolescents, able to connect with them, and committed to their formation as individuals on the cusp of adulthood.