POTSDAM -- 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. At the conference, students earned nominations and recognition for two of the department's mainstage productions from the past year.

Fifteen students and two faculty members attended the festival. 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.

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."

Among the students chosen to attend this year's festival included two from St. Lawrence County, Rachael Clements of Potsdam and Zoe Loveless of Hannawa Falls, who was nominated for an Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Department of Theatre and Dance, visit http://www.potsdam.edu/theatre.