If all goes according to plan, Pace University may soon join the ranks of the great performing arts colleges in Manhattan.
The new performance school, say Pace officials, will be the first one to hit the island in 50 years.
What's interesting about this is that Pace has a performing arts program already. That program has grown so much over the last three years that the department expanded further across the financial district to 140 William Street.
Pace U, headquartered off Park Row, also houses the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, where Inside the Actor's Studio is filmed. (A bit of trivia: One time, Bradley Cooper, a Pace alumnus, asked Robert De Niro a question at a recording of the show only to be the interviewee years later.)
"Pace is fast becoming a cultural hub for the performing arts in Lower Manhattan," Stephen J. Friedman, the university's president, said in a statement.
The newly dedicated school will become a part of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace's liberal arts college.
It was only a matter of time before PU garnered enough applicants to make room for an extension to their acting program, of which the school is most recognized for alongside its business program.
