My partner has been battling with getting out of her teaching career in public education and needs advice on what other careers she can pursue with her skill set. This is 4th year as a theatre educator.

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The usual suspects are instructional design, facilitation, and training/development roles. But with their theatre experience, maybe something related to performing arts in the local community. Depending on where you live, there should be a couple nonprofits and government orgs in that vein.

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Consulting, sales, programming

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What came to my mind is being a Theatre coach for students in any grade. There are lots of parents out there who would be willing to pay for extra one-on-one time for their kids who love the theatre. She has a great opportunity to get some market research done with her current students/parents.

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