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Trinity offers world-class theatre facilities, supported by an educational environment with multiple theaters and studios for all aspects of theater production and performance. This atmosphere provides our students hands-on experience, for artists to think, lead and create.
Jane and Arthur Stieren Theater
The Jane and Arthur Stieren Theater is stage to the Trinity theater department's four yearly productions, along with other large campus and community events. Ready to get on stage, find out more about how to audition.
Stieren Theater seats 497 spectators, with balcony and orchestra seating available. The theater features a professional state-of-the-art sound, lighting and rigging systems, providing students hands-on end to end production and technician experience.
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Attic Theater
The Attic Theatre is a classroom, performance lab, and black box theatre for Trinity’s theatre program. Located on the upper level of the Ruth Taylor Theatre Building, it has a sprung floor and excellent sound, lighting, and video systems. As a black box performance space, the Attic seating can be configured to create intimate “proscenium,” “three-quarter thrust,” and “in-the-round” theatre experiences, with seating limited to 75 people. Each school year, the Attic hosts a number of student-produced lab shows, as well as occasional faculty-directed season productions.
Café Theater
The Café Theater seats 50 and is also used for performance classes and student-produced lab shows.
Studios
The Ruth Taylor Theatre Building houses our Costume Studio, Paint Studio, Properties Studio, and Scenic Studio, all of which support the mainstage theatre productions. Theatre majors and minors are required to work in a studio each semester, and students can apply for one of the many work-study positions in our studios.
The costume studio is equipped with 12 Bernina sewing machines, four Bernina sergers, an industrial sewing machine, an industrial hemmer, and an assortment of dress forms. We have ample storage space for fabric, notions, and accessories, as well as a costume storage "closet" with over 400 linear feet of hanging space and over 205 linear feet of shelving for storage of shoes and hats.
The paint studio is housed on stage right, providing over 600 square feet of painting space. Larger items, such as drops, are painted on the stage.
The well-organized properties studio provides easy access to our stored props as well as storage of a production's custom props and furniture.
The 2,500-square-foot scenic studio is equipped for both wood and metal working. It houses a SawStop table saw, a 12" DeWALT radial arm saw, several power miter saws, a distributed pneumatic system with many pneumatic tools, three Miller welders, a cold-cut steel saw, drill press, band saw, drill/mill machine and many other power and hand tools.