Facilities

The Ivy Arts Centre

The recently created £4.5m arts centre provides a 200 seat theatre,  120 seat studio space, rehearsal spaces, production workshops, wardrobe facilities and dressing rooms. It is the creative centre for production skills students, dance, theatre, acting and musical theatre students. The Ivy is fitted with professional standard sound and lighting equipment, as well as a box office and bar.

Guildford School of Acting (GSA)

The striking new GSA headquarters building houses an extensive range of teaching, studio and social space as well as a Starbucks coffee shop.

All students enjoy the great facilities offered in this building, our other adjacent arts spaces and the fantastic campus.

Performing Arts Technology Studios (PATS)

This music filled building is home to Studio 1, a flexible concert hall and sound recording studio space, seating up to 260.  This is primary space for the extensive programme of lunchtime and rush-hour concerts which are free to all staff, students and the public.

The PATS dance studio is a multi-purpose rehearsal and performance space for dance and theatre; it is also used for film screenings.

Lewis Elton Gallery

Our acclaimed gallery presents exhibitions featuring nationally and internationally known artists.  Students are encouraged to drop in and to come to private views which are usually attended by the exhibiting artist.

University of Surrey Television Studio

It offers a fully professional production and facilities house. The broadcast studio has very recently been completely upgraded and now houses a full 1080i HD 3 camera studio with the latest ' state-of -the-art ' 32 channel lighting mixer and florescent lighting rig and gantry . The associated control room is equipped a with a full HD broadcast vision mixer together with XDCAM HD, HD-DVCAM, DVCAM, DVD, HD mini DV, mini DV, DVCpro and Betacam video recorders.