Amiere Bell of Evans Mills, NY, who was also nominated for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship.The SUNY Potsdam students chosen to attend this year’s festival included:
Jay Pecora directed the Spring 2019 production of Suzan Zeder’s children’s theatre piece, “Wiley and the Hairy Man,” which focuses on a young hero who sets out to face the figure of his nightmares.īrandi Dupere was chosen to present about her costume designs for “Love and Information” during the design/tech/management student showcase, and ultimately took home the 2020 award for Excellence in Costume Design at the festival. Rocchio directed the Fall 2019 production of Caryl Churchill’s “Love and Information,” which explored the themes of love and connection in the information age, and was staged throughout the College’s Performing Arts Center. In addition to taking in the events at the regional Kennedy Center Festival event, six SUNY Potsdam students were nominated for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship, in recognition of their acting work in SUNY Potsdam performances of the plays “Love and Information” and “Wiley and the Hairy Man.” 1 event brought together students, performers, educators and professionals from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Northeastern New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. The regional theater festival featured intense immersion in workshops, sessions and other activities, covering everything from building your own theatre company to vocal coaching and firearms safety on stage. At the conference, students earned nominations and recognition for two of the department’s mainstage productions from the past year.įifteen students attended the festival, along with faculty members Todd Canedy and Rivka Rocchio. Students and faculty from SUNY Potsdam’s Department of Theatre and Dance traveled to Cape Cod, Mass., in late January to participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Regional Festival.
Upstairs, individual classrooms were designed with a palette echoing the qualities of the lobby, mitigating the scale and acoustics of each space with acoustical wood ceiling clouds, and providing a sense of continuity and community through shared transoms between classrooms.Brandi Dupere’s costume designs from the SUNY Potsdam Department of Theatre and Dance production of “Love and Information” (pictured) won an award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Regional Festival. At the center of the plan a large stair leads to the classrooms above, and was designed to double as informal seating for staff presentations in the open elevator lobby below.
These bays are coordinated with similarly painted ceiling panels in the classrooms, establishing color as an organizing link between individual learning spaces upstairs and meeting areas in the lobby for pickup and drop off.
KENNEDY CHILD STUDY CENTER BRONX SERIES
In response, one primary design feature took the form of a series of large, colorful lighting bays cut into the otherwise smooth ceiling - effectively creating the perception of greater height and illumination from above. While the large, open floor plates of the two-floor center allowed for flexibility in layout, the low ceiling height of the lower floor presented a number of challenges, from daylighting to the distribution of building systems. We were asked to design the 25,000 SF build-out for their new 16-classroom facility, including family programming and administrative offices for both the school and the organization. After nearly sixty years in their original Mid-town East location the Kennedy Children's Center, a 400-family program for young children with developmental delays, has relocated to East Harlem.
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