The Student Success Center will bring together all of Klein College’s student services, including study-away programs, academic advising, enrollment, and career services. This central hub will support the needs of our students with an open, inviting space featuring lounge seating and a prominent presentation room for prospective student events, workshops, seminars, and employer visits. 

The atrium will be a dramatic point of entry to the new building, serving as a welcoming space bustling with student activity. It will feature a tribute to Lew Klein, the legendary Philadelphia television pioneer and teacher for whom our school is named, as well as areas to recognize donors and salute distinguished alumni. Klein’s innovative programs, the array of our student work and student-run media such as the Temple University Television, WHIP Radio and the Temple News will be featured on state-of-the-art digital displays.

At Klein College, students “learn it by living it.” Our new Integrated Student Media Center will become a key part of that media landscape, providing a central hub for student media outlets like The Temple News, Temple University Television, WHIP Radio, and the Templar yearbook. This center will empower students to collaborate, create, and gain work experiences that prepare them for careers in the digital age. 

This cutting-edge collaboration space will foster and inspire connections between faculty and students, offering a comfortable area for meeting, working, and engaging with one another. 

The legacy of Sigma Sound, the legendary recording studio founded by Joseph Tarsia, that made “The Sound of Philadelphia” world-famous, will live on at Klein College through the re-creation of Sigma Sound Studios. Designed from the original blueprints but equipped with modernized, state-of-the-art technology, the new Sigma Sound will be the home for Klein students training to be producers, engineers, technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs.

Long recognized by peers as the nation’s best college television station, TUTV-TEMPLE UNIVERSITY TELEVISION will have a futuristic studio faculty in the new Caroline Kimmel Pavilion.  Working in the Kal & Lucille Rudman Media Production Center, Klein College students will produce, original LIVE, video content for TUTV’S television, streaming, web and social media platforms. At the core of the Rudman Center will be a technically advanced, production studio with a “Today Show” style window on the world that allows passersby to look inside and watch student programs being broadcast. 

Klein students will learn the practices and protocols of professional production using the latest video and audio technology in the TUTV Media-Plex,  a high tech, multi-purpose space that combines the functionality of a classroom, a laboratory and a studio control room. It is the ultra-modern space in which practice and theory come together to inspire our students. 

While Temple Update, Lo Ultimo and Owl Sports productions will occupy a new, styled studio set with large, high-definition video walls, other popular TUTV student programs such as Temple Tonight, Temple Smash, La Charla, We Need To Talk, The Vibe, Qt: Queer Temple and more will be housed in two large, technically advanced video production studios and control rooms. All these new spaces are designed to leverage the kind of experiential learning that makes Klein College unique in our discipline and prepares our students for professional success. 

Our main theater space is designed to further recognize Temple’s award-winning theater and opera programs by placing them in a prime location, custom-built to propel students toward their full potential. A fully modern theater, the space includes a large orchestra pit and a capacity of approximately 375.

The black box theater, our secondary modular theater space, will provide infinite opportunities for custom scenery, lighting, projection and sound reinforcement so that anything students imagine can become reality. The theater's 144 seats can be arranged on configurable seating platforms to allow for traditional, in-the-round, traverse or other options to suit the performance.

Our full-sized cinema will be a hub for artistic expression, showcasing our brilliant student filmmakers and hosting festivals, celebrating the power of visual narratives. Seating approximately 175, this space supports multiple projection formats and support for talkbacks and guest lectures.

The screening room will be a dedicated space for showcasing student films and a transformative learning environment for film classes. A more intimate space than the cinema, this space accommodates approximately 65 guests and provides a similar high-quality film experience.

Our state-of-the-art large dance studio and rehearsal studio will launch our program into the 21st century of innovation, literally and figuratively, giving students the space they need to grow as artists. Featuring sprung floors and full-length mirror walls, these spaces will elevate our theater and musical theater programs and empower the next generation of performers. 

The scene shop will enable students to craft the sets that bring stories to life. 

The costume shop will allow students to design and create stunning costumes that transform young actors into heroes and legends.

The light, sound and projection lab will inspire students to explore the capabilities of cutting-edge theatrical displays, light, shadow and color.

The sounds stage will revolutionize our students’ film production capabilities with increased space and cutting-edge technology, empowering students to unleash their full creative potential and create more ambitious work than ever before. 

Adjacent to the Sound Stage, this room recreates a film set environment for real-world filmmaking instruction.

As both a classroom and exhibition space, the New Media Studio provides a flexible space to experiment with immersive cinema, virtual reality and other technologies to prepare students to lead cinema in new directions.

A series of industry-standard post production suites allow student filmmakers to refine and adjust the final product of their work to meet their vision.

• Edit Suites
  • Editing suites will be linked to allow for individual post production work and to incorporate Foley and Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) to create the final effects necessary for state-of-the-art cinema projects
• Sound Mix Suite
  • The Sound Mix Suite, like all of the post production studios, will feature connectivity between spaces, high-quality sound reproduction and, as needed, projection or large 4-K television screens for video playback.
• Immersive Audio and Virtual Reality (VR) Suite
  • A post production room for new media students, gamers and virtual reality programmers to test run and fine tune projects before bringing them into the larger New Media Studio and classroom.
• Color Correction Studio
  • This studio will allow a color correctionist, director and cinematographer to be in the same room to review and adjust the color balance of their film. High-quality audio in addition to industry-standard color correction screens are featured in this vital post production facility. 
• Digital Integration (DI) Theater/Classroom
  •  The DI Theater is a rare feature among university-based film schools. It provides a space where the director, cinematographer, actors, and the post production technicians review every aspect of a film together – color correction, audio, effects and more. And it is also a classroom where professional use of a DI Theater is brought to students, enabling them to more easily transition to major industry standards.

A flexible space for teaching and creation, this room is designed to accommodate a range of animation techniques including hand-drawn, computer modeled, stop-motion, motion graphics and rotoscoping so that students can explore every aspect of their craft.

Intentionally designed to mirror a professional rental facility, the equipment office loans filmmaking hardware to students for their productions. Comprising a range of cameras from 16mm film cameras to Arri Amira digital equipment, as well as audio and lighting instruments and various other needs, the equipment office supplies all of the gear needed to make a film. The prep bays allow students to fully test their gear before leaving the equipment office and will have camera mounts, focus charts and necessary technical support.