The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students annually from colleges and universities across the country. KCACTF aims to:

• Encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs;

• Provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight, and achieve professionalism;

• Improve the quality of college and university theater in the United States; and

• Encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.

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