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Job Opportunities
Job Title: Researcher-in-Residence
Status: Part-Time
Reports to: Artistic Director and Research Advisor
Compensation: $10,000
Application deadline: October 15, 2023
Anticipated Start Date: November 1, 2023
Office Location: Flatbush, Brooklyn. Position is hybrid and allows for schedule customization. In-office or on-site hours required.
Kyoung’s Pacific Beat invites early scholars of color [PhD enrollment required, PhD in Theater or related fields preferred] to join our peacemaking, devising theater company as Researcher-in-Residence. With support of a $50,000 research planning grant from the Wallace Foundation, Kyoung’s Pacific Beat – a peacemaking theater company based in Brooklyn, NY – is collaborating with Mike Klein, EdD to research “Devising Peacemaking Theater: Advancing a Culture of Peace,” a participatory action research project that seeks to investigate peacemaking theater in America and the structural limitations for this theatrical work in the field.
Our company is offering a Researcher-in-Residence position between November 2023 – April 2024 to launch a national study on peacemaking devising theaters, integrating Peace Studies and Theater Studies. This position is part-time, hybrid, and preference will be given to applicants based in New York City. Compensation is $10,000.
To apply, please submit 1) a cover letter; 2) writing sample; 3) CV to Kyoung H. Park via email at [email protected]. The position is open until Nov. 1, 2024 or until it’s fulfilled – whichever comes first.
Casting Opportunity
Kyoung’s Pacific Beat invites queer, trans, and BIPOC performers of color to join us for the development of OTHER NO MORE.
OTHER NO MORE is a docudrama based on NYC-based queer elders of color who lobbied the US Surgeon General to disaggregate Asian-Americans and Native Americans from the “Other” box in the US Census to address the healthcare needs of BIPOC LGBQT+ communities in NYC during the HIV/AIDS crisis.
OTHER NO MORE will be a verbatim play based on interviews conducted by KPB with prominent organizers including Collette Carter, John Chin, Verónica Flores, Gil Gerald, Curtis Harris-Davia, Kris Hayashi, Joo-Hyun Kang, Don Kao, Paul Kawata, Johnny Monzon-Santos, Cara Page and Suki Terada Ports. For a full casting breakdown, click here.
Compensation: $500 for Equity Staged Reading. 2 Days of Rehearsal and 1 Performance – 29 hours. Actors must be located in NYC.
Rehearsals: December 6-8th, 2023
Location: Ma-Yi Studios (260 W. 35th Street, NYC.)
Specific dates/times TBD based on actors’ availability.
Reading: Friday, December 8th, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Great Room, ART/NY South Oxford Space (138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn).
Email Theatrical Resume & Headshot to [email protected].
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