Theatre seating capacity
- 270
The Leon G. Cooperman '67 Commons auditorium is intended for faculty, staff, and students to host large audience presentations.
4,258
Square Footage
270
Maximum Capacity
1st Floor
David Geffen Hall
Space Description
Intended Use
Large audience presentations
Window
Northwest corner with views of the Hudson River and courtyard
Target Group
- Faculty,
- staff,
- and students
Additional Features
- Adjacent to the green room and alumni suite which may be reserved separately
- Adjacent to Geffen Hall main entrance and lobby
- AV control booth located in rear of auditorium
- Accessible from both the first and second floors of Geffen Hall
- This space features fixed auditorium seating, floor space is limited
Furniture
Requesting
To request that this dedicated furniture be removed or that any of the furniture listed as "available upon request" be brought into the space for your event, submit a ticket to the Operations team here.
Dedicated furniture marked with a * may not be removed and must remain in the space.
Dedicated furniture
- 270 auditorium seats*
- Lectern*
- Rug (22 feet by 10 feet)
Available upon request
- 6 Lounge chairs
- 8 High top chairs
- 3 Coffee table (2 feet diameter)
- 4 High top tables
- 2 CBS-branded step and repeat banners
- 4 Easels (suitable for holding a sign that is approximately 24 inches by 36 inches in size)
AV Capabilities
AV Request
To request any of the equipment listed as "available upon request" be brought into the space for your event, submit a ticket to the Event Technology Team here.
Lectern
- Built-in computer (with presentation software (including Microsoft Suite, Adobe PDF, PDF Annotator, VLC Media Player, Google Chrome, Zoom)
- Presentation remote (enables speaker to advance presentation slides without interacting with built-in computer, located in podium drawer)
- Personal device connection (HDMI cable with various adapters used to project from personal laptop)
- Digital touch panel selector (controls content output on projection screen)
- Document camera (projects images of paper and objects)
- Pen input screen (built-in display with companion stylus for drawing on presentation screen)
Room Display
- 1 Projection screen
Built-in Cameras
- 3 Ceiling-mounted cameras (with views of the audience and presenter)
Microphones
- 1 Podium-mounted
- 2 Wireless handheld
- 2 Lapel (hands free)
- 1 Headset (hands free)
- Ceiling mounted (used for capturing audience participation)
- 8 microphone channels maximum (no more than eight microphones of any kind can be used at one time)
Additional AV Capabilities
- Mounted speakers
- 1 Confidence monitor (located downstage for speaker reference during presentation)
- Mounted speakers (for PC & Device Audio)
- Basic lighting control (via podium digital control panel)
- Sound booth (located in the rear of the auditorium for event production technicians)
Available upon request
- Additional wireless handheld microphones
- Additional lapel microphones
- Additional headset microphones
- Echo 360 Lecture Capture system (scheduled, automatic recording of lectures or events; recordings automatically available on shared platform)
- External camera/content inputs (Videographers and production companies may add their equipment to the room’s AV system)
Capacities for different event layouts
Round table capacity (with eight chairs per table)
- Not applicable
Hollow square capacity
- Not applicable
Standing capacity
- Not applicable
High-top table capacity (with two chairs per table)
- Not applicable
Rectangular pods capacity (four five-foot tables arranged together, eight chairs per pod)
- Not applicable
Sample Event Layouts
