McDaniel College Senior Kiera Gillock of Cranston, R.I., Directs One-Act Play

Performance of Crazy Eights takes place Wednesday, November 14 - Saturday, November 17 at McDaniel College, Westminster, Md.

WESTMINSTER, MD (11/05/2012)(readMedia)-- McDaniel College senior Kiera Gillock of Cranston, R.I., directs the one-act play, "Crazy Eights," during the college's Student-Directed Play Festival.

Free and open to the public, performances take place Wednesday, November 14 – Saturday, November 17, at 7:30 p.m. in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md.

"Crazy Eights" by David Lindsay-Abaire is a beguiling slice of life comedy that examines a blossoming, awkward romance between Connie and her parole officer. When Connie comes home late one night, she finds her parole officer waiting in her apartment with a torte and a long list of questions. The interrogation/courting dance that follows is complicated by the after-hours arrival of Connie's charming card-playing buddy.

For more information, call 410-857-2448. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu for more information about the college and the theatre arts department.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.