Facilities

Information on facilities & equipment for Theatre students at Denison University

The Michael D. Eisner Center for Performing Arts

The building is named for Michael D. Eisner ’64, a Life Trustee of the college, a former chairman and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, and founder of the Tornante Company.

The Eisner Center houses state-of-the-art stages and rehearsal spaces, numerous classrooms and offices, as well as many open spaces especially configured to encourage interdisciplinary activity. The Eisner Center now encompasses Burke Hall to create a continuous performing arts experience. Taken together, Denison offers its performing arts students, faculty and programs more than 108,000 square feet of transformational space.

Performance Spaces

Sharon Martin Hall

The Sharon Martin Hall is a flexible, state-of-the-art 400-seat proscenium theatre built with the ability to accommodate a wide variety of performances. Multiple stage and seating configurations allow for an array of stagings and audience sizes. Acoustics can be adjusted to deaden the space for amplified sound — or liven it for acoustic and orchestral performances.

Hylbert Family Studio Theatre

The 3,600-square-foot Hylbert Family Studio Theatre (formerly the Black Box Theatre) seats an intimate audience of up to 150.

Rehearsal Spaces

Students rehearsing with Mark Bryan in the Large Rehearsal Space

Special rehearsal spaces can be used for performances and classes as well:

The Large Rehearsal Space can seat up to 156 people. It is exactly the same size as the Martin Hall stage, which allows rehearsals to be at the same scale as performances. The slightly scaled-back rigging, lighting and AV systems are similar to the Martin Theatre, and the Large Rehearsal Space also can be used for performances, classes, and the occasional meeting.
The Medium Rehearsal Space is the prototypical versatile space, equipped for teaching, choral rehearsals, and theater lab work.

Additional Resources

The Eisner Center also contains excellent construction and support facilities:

A fully-equipped scene shop for both wood and metal fabrication
An extensive costume shop with a separate cutting and pattern layout area
The Mulberry Inter-media eXperimental (MIX) lab contains digital drawing, scanning, photo editing and film editing software and hardware, used in costume, scenic, and lighting design courses. A satellite lab space holds ten computer stations equipped with the same capabilities as the Mulberry Lab.
Extensive storage facilities that house many hundreds of props and costumes from every historical period
A theatre library, with hundreds of play scripts and theatre texts.

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