Episcopal Academy Campus Center - Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Academy recently completed construction of a campus center for their new campus in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, including two theaters and ample support space. They succeeded in building an auditorium with considerable grace and intensity that has regional significance. The campus center opened in September, 2008.

Facilities include:

• A 590-seat auditorium with a horseshoe balcony.
• Proscenium stage with 41'-6" high trim, 33 single-purchase counterweight rigging sets, house curtain, masking draperies, scrim, cyclorama, 192 dimmers, full stage lighting "house plot", two auditorium catwalks, control room, resilient stage floor for dance and ballet, and backstage support facilities.
• A black box theater with portable chairs, portable risers, resilient stage floor for dance and ballet, pipe grid, 96 dimmers and a full stage lighting system.
• 1800SF scene shop, which doubles as a shop for the whole school.

The new theater at Episcopal Academy is 7 miles from the new theater at Malvern Prep.

Architect: Gund Partnership
Architect: Hillier Architecture
Acoustician: Acentech