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   from the issue of October 11, 2007

     
 
Carson gifts power program improvements

 BY KATHE ANDERSEN, FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS

Entertainment and television icon and University of Nebraska alumnus Johnny Carson announced in November 2004 a gift of $5.3 million to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support the renovation and expansion of the Temple Building, home to the Carson School, and to create an endowment to keep performance spaces equipped with the latest advances in lighting and sound technologies.


NEW LIGHTS - The renovation of the Temple Building included a new lighting grid for the Studio Theatre..
 
NEW LIGHTS - The renovation of the Temple Building included a new lighting grid for the Studio Theatre..

 
Following Carson's death in January 2005, the University of Nebraska Foundation received an additional gift of $5 million from Carson's estate for endowed support of programs in theatre, film and broadcasting. Annual income from the endowment provides support to the Carson School in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and the broadcasting program in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

In August 2005, the University of Nebraska renamed the Department of Theatre Arts the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.

The renovation project, which began in June 2006 and was completed in June 2007, is the first work done on the building in 25 years. The renovation included a new combination black box theatre and film sound stage for students to use in their productions, a newly remodeled and expanded scene shop and updated lighting facilities, new computer-aided design and theatre class lab space, enhanced storage facilities, and an updated lobby for Howell Theatre.

The new black box theatre has a state-of-the-art lighting grid custom designed by The Shalleck Collaborative of San Francisco and built and installed by StageCraft Industries of Portland, Ore. The grid provides professional level lighting capabilities for theatre performances, education, TV and film production. It is the only one of its kind in the Midwest.


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Hear Carson's 1949 senior thesis, "How to Write Comedy for Radio," online. The 45-minute recording will be available online Oct 12 at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/theaterstudent/1


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