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BROCKPORT, NY (01/09/2009)(readMedia)-- The Department of Theatre at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, has been invited to perform its production of Tom Flannery's docudrama Colorblind: The Katrina Monologues at the Region II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The festival takes place January 13 to January 17, and the performance of Colorblind will be at 12:30 pm on Friday, January 16, 2009, at Philadelphia's historic Merriam Theatre, 250 South Broad Street. The production will be reviewed by the Festival's National Selection Team, which can decide to extend an invitation for the production to be presented at the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The Department of Theatre's commitment to the goals of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival has resulted in three of the College's productions to be selected to appear at the festival since 2003. Region II is comprised of college theatre programs throughout Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

P. Gibson Ralph, chair of the Department of Theatre, states that the goals of the festival and the department are to "encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theatre programs; provide opportunities for participants to develop their theatre skills and insight; achieve professionalism; improve the quality of college and university theatre in America; and to encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays."

Colorblind: The Katrina Monologues was originally performed at The College at Brockport in September 2008. Flannery had written the piece in response to the unanswered questions arising from the relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina's devastation. Maria Scipione, lecturer in the Department of Theatre, directed the thought-provoking play, which left its audience wondering how America could have gone through such demoralizing turmoil.