Teaching Artist Fellows
We are currently looking for Metro Theater Company’s next Teaching Artist Fellow for our 2022-2023 Season! Application deadline is April 18, 2022.
Defined by creativity, flexibility, collaboration, and frontline community engagement, Metro Theater Company’s excellence is recognized nationally. The Teaching Artist Fellow will work closely with Metro Theater Company’s Education Director and Resident Teaching Artist to plan curriculum and to teach in a wide variety of PreK-12 programs in school and community settings.
We asked a few past Teaching Artist Fellows what they most enjoyed about their time with MTC. Read what they said!
Renita James, MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
”I loved my time with Metro Theater Company. Everyone was so accessible and if I needed anything I could reach out to Karen, Julia, or John and I knew I would be heard. It was an incredible opportunity to learn the ways a professional theatre for youth is run, especially a TYA company that centers youth voices. The work was absolutely phenomenal and having the opportunity to interact with students in a variety of settings was so fulfilling. My favorite part of the Teaching Artist Fellowship? Staff Lunches! Whenever we were onsite having the opportunity to share a meal together and build community was something I looked forward to every day. I honestly adored every second at Metro Theater.”
Samantha Reser, MFA Theatre for Young Audiences Candidate at the University of Central Florida
"I really loved just how much I got to work with schools across the St. Louis community. Not only did I get to work closely with everyone in the Education team, but I got to collaborate with teachers and students from all different ages and backgrounds, which expanded my teaching artist skills. The atmosphere at Metro Theater Company is so kind and supportive, too. I always felt like my experience and knowledge was valued, and that made it so much easier to learn new things through this fellowship."
Gen Zoufal, Metro Theater Company Resident Teaching Artist
Something I loved about the fellowship is that every day was different! We might spend our mornings in an SLPS school doing an arts integrated lesson plan about biomes and in the afternoon we could be out in the county building community with 5th grade students. The fellow gets the opportunity to work with so many different people during their time at the company. I loved it so much—I stuck around and now I’m the Resident Teaching Artist.