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The facility
offers several state-of-the-art performance venues. The mainstage
Chosky Theater seats 500 audience members for large-scale productions.
A studio theater provides a more intimate, "black-box" setting
space for smaller productions.
Additional facilities
in the Purnell include classrooms, faculty offices, rehearsal studios
and a dance studio. A costume shop, scene shop, paint shop and
metal shop provide students with hands-on experience behind the
scenes. A TV studio is located within the facility.
The Purnell
also houses the Regina Gouger Miller Art Gallery, a 6000-square-foot
exhibition space for contemporary works of art.
Academy Award-winning
composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz and musical director of the
Rose O' Donnell Show John MacDaniel were among the alumni who came
back to campus to celebrate the building's official unveiling in
2000.
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