Drama Teacher & Theater Director

Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan is seeking a Drama Teacher & Theater Director to join its diverse, enthusiastic and highly supportive community of teachers, working in a beautifully appointed and state of the art campus for an August/September 2026 start.

We are seeking an outstanding Drama Teacher & Theater Director to join our Performing Arts department. This unique role combines teaching Drama to elementary students (approximately 50% of the timetable) with leading secondary school theater productions (approximately 50%). The successful candidate will inspire a love of performance in younger students while directing high-quality productions that engage, challenge, and showcase the talents of older students.

We are looking for a passionate educator and theater practitioner with a strong appreciation of dramatic literature and performance traditions. Experience teaching or directing classical theater, including Shakespeare, is highly desirable, alongside the ability to bring contemporary and diverse theatrical works to life.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape a vibrant theater program within a collaborative international school community, supported by excellent facilities and enthusiastic students.

Background

The mission of Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan is to build a future-oriented school, focused on empowering scholars to thrive in a rapidly changing economic and social environment. We will educate our scholars to become competent for the work that is yet to be created, to apply the technology that is yet to be invented and to solve social problems yet to be imagined.

Salary and benefits

• Highly competitive salary levels

• High quality housing

• Annual return airfare for employee and dependents

• Medical insurance for employee and dependents

• Full tuition support for employees with school-age children

About the school

Culture

Huayao Collegiate embraces a blend of Chinese and American language and culture, recognizing that, together, a child’s social-emotional character and academic wellbeing empower them to achieve success in life.

Curriculum

Huayao Collegiate employs a blended Chinese and American curriculum that combines a drive for academic excellence within a whole child education program designed to nurture healthy, globally aware young adults.

Community

Huayao Collegiate has brought together a highly supportive community of teachers who enjoy collaboration and learning, who embrace cross-cultural adaptability, and who share a resilient and ethical passion for developing an outstanding school environment and culture.

*We are committed to a thorough and complete check of the credentials of all those employed to work with children in our organization.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Drama, Performing Arts or related fields; Master’s degree preferred

• Strong expertise in drama

• Experience teaching Drama within a school setting

• Excellent subject knowledge and a passion for theater and performance

• Experience teaching or directing classical theater, including Shakespeare, is highly desirable

• Demonstrated interest in student development and optimism for students’ ability to learn and grow

• Ability to learn and apply local Chinese educational standards as well as new technologies

• Interest in and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

• Ability to collaborate, establish rapport and communicate in a Dual Language Immersion environment