BARNETT THEATRE

Features

• Fully trapped stage with orchestra pit
• Audience capacity of 380 patrons
• Home to Department of Theatre/Dance productions throughout the academic year; including plays, musicals and the annual DanceScapes concert
• Lightboard – ETC Gio
• Dimmer per-circuit system, with inventory of 350+ fixtures
• Sound Board – Yamaha CL5 Series
• Input channels, 72 mono, 8 stereo
  • Fader configuration: 16 fader-left section, 8-fader catalogic section, 8-fader right section, 2-fader master section
  • Built-in meter bridge
• QLab for Audio and Video design and playback macOS software
• Dante Networking System for audio system
• Single Purchase Line-Set System (17 lines, 3 dedicated lighting batons)
• 2 motorized lighting trusses on apron
• Full cyclorama
• Automated House Curtains
• 2 Lights Lycian Midget Follow Spots
• Dedicated sound booth
• Dedicated Lighting and Stage Management Booth
• Dedicated Spot light booth
• Wireless and wired intercom system

Located in the Greenhill Center of the Arts

History

Barnett Theatre is named after Wynett Barnett, a professor of speech and theater, who worked at UW-Whitewater from 1946 to 1970. She held a variety of positions during her tenure, including department chair and dean of women. She helped establish the summer tent theatre program, brought the national debate tournament to UW-Whitewater, and was instrumental in the creation of the WSUW (91.7 FM), the university radio station.

A theatre scholarship, awarded through the UW-Whitewater Foundation, is named after Barnett and honors students in the following categories: performance, technical, costume, dance, and the all-around student.

Barnett pushed to establish academic majors in both theatre and communication sciences and disorders and was a leader in the efforts to establish an arts college at UW-Whitewater and the construction of a building in 1971 to house it. When she retired, she devoted countless hours to recording works for the blind.