Theatre Program Director Interview Questions

1 Share an experience you had in dealing with a difficult person and how you handled the situation.
2 Provide an effective method you have used to initiate and facilitate classroom discussions. Share an experience.
3 Name a time when your advice to management led to an improvement in your company or otherwise helped your employer.
4 Please share with me an example of how you helped coach or mentor someone. What improvements did you see in the person's knowledge or skills?
5 Describe an experience in which you identified the educational needs of your students and successfully developed a way to teach/train them.
6 Share an experience in which you successfully shared a difficult piece of information. (Make sure that the candidate has open lines of communication.)
7 Tell me how you organize, plan, and prioritize your work.
8 What are some long-range objectives that you developed in your last job? What did you do to achieve them?
9 Share an experience when you applied new technology or information in your job. How did it help your company?
10 Give me an example of when you thought outside of the box. How did it help your employer?
11 Tell me about an experience in which you analyzed information and evaluated results to choose the best solution to a problem.
12 Would you consider analyzing data or information a strength? How so?
13 Share an example of a time you had to gather information from multiple sources. How did you determine which information was relevant?
14 Please share an experience in which you successfully taught a difficult principle or concept. How were you able to be successful?
15 Share an experience in which you used new training skills, ideas, or a method to adapt to a new situation or improve an ongoing one. (Look for the candidate's ability to learn.)