Carr said his decision to found the theater is unrelated to last spring's announcement that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would take control of the Hasty Pudding's theater space. But it may provide a boon to the ART, which used to hold performances in the Hasty Pudding building and may perform in the new space.

Rob Orchard, director of the Loeb Drama Center and the managing director of the ART, said the ART was contacted by Carr to "help program the space from a theatrical point of view," Orchard said.

Carr said that Grendel's Den, a bar currently in the building's basement, will remain there as a tenant. The theater will be on the first floor. The second floor will be dedicated to rehearsal space and the third floor will house theater offices.

Orchard characterized the space as "intimate...along the lines of a cabaret space."

Orchard said he would like to see the ART, the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club collaborate in the new theater.

"Different groups can mix it up together," he said.

He said he has asked Justin M. Krebs '00 to consider coordinating a series of performances by undergraduate improvisational groups an example of the collaboration he hopes the space will promote.