Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

ASTEP is thrilled to partner for a third year with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide, to enhance the quality of college theater in the United States.

ASTEP will be leading two workshops, “Time to Make a Change” and “Living Outside the Box”, highlighting creative ways to use the arts to transform lives and communities. In addition, ASTEP will be joining a prestigious panel of judges for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. (Check out our 2013 experience!)

Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center’s founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.

 

The goals of the KCACTF are 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; achieve professionalism.
• Improve the quality of college and university theater in America.
• 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.

_____________________________________________________________________________

ASTEP’s presenters at each of the eight regions:

Ali Dachis, ASTEP Volunteer Artist

* Hollins University - Region 4 (Feb 4-8)

_____________________________________________________________________________