2008 Woodie Awards
10th Floor Mystery
by Cat Kirifides
Issue date: 4/1/04 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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As you've gone up in the Park Row elevator, have you ever been greeted by some somewhat odd looking kids or objects coming on or off ,seen masses of wood take up all the space ,or see a chaos of tools, paint, and people as the doors open to the mysterious 10th floor? I've seen the looks and inquiring faces of professors and students alike. This isn't a lost world or alternate universe, it's just where most of the Theater Department lives and works. Although the 12th floor is where the structured office of this department is located, it can pose as a regular classroom floor, but the 10th is utterly different. Due to the fact that some of the only restrooms in the building are on this floor, it's frequented often by unfamiliar faces that look, to be honest somewhat scared of all that they see.
Unlike any other floor in Park Row, the 10th does not consist of your normal hallway of classrooms; in fact it doesn't technically even contain any classrooms. Instead it houses the Schaeberle Studio Theater (a small black box theater) where the Theatre Department puts on a majority of their shows, as well as hold an array of classes each day from acting to voice and movement, film and television, and stagecraft. The studio as well as the floor, is always buzzing with something to do. Also on the 10th floor reside two smaller rooms that act as the department's costume and scene shops. The costume shop is a stimuli of senses as you walk in and see mounds of costume pieces, fabric, machines, and usually packed with a class of students. Opposite it, the scene shop is the exact opposite sight and is filled from wall to wall with power tools and paint. The entire space of the 10th floor is utilized to it's fullest with closets full of electrics, and the back hallway around the theater used as storage space for lumber and other set pieces and equipment. Even the janitor's closet on this miraculous floor is actually used quite regularly and is always stocked with brushes and paint cans of many sorts.
Unlike any other floor in Park Row, the 10th does not consist of your normal hallway of classrooms; in fact it doesn't technically even contain any classrooms. Instead it houses the Schaeberle Studio Theater (a small black box theater) where the Theatre Department puts on a majority of their shows, as well as hold an array of classes each day from acting to voice and movement, film and television, and stagecraft. The studio as well as the floor, is always buzzing with something to do. Also on the 10th floor reside two smaller rooms that act as the department's costume and scene shops. The costume shop is a stimuli of senses as you walk in and see mounds of costume pieces, fabric, machines, and usually packed with a class of students. Opposite it, the scene shop is the exact opposite sight and is filled from wall to wall with power tools and paint. The entire space of the 10th floor is utilized to it's fullest with closets full of electrics, and the back hallway around the theater used as storage space for lumber and other set pieces and equipment. Even the janitor's closet on this miraculous floor is actually used quite regularly and is always stocked with brushes and paint cans of many sorts.