Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

KCACTF

Since 2007, CSU Theatre has received regional and national honors, awards, and scholarships at the annual Kennedy Center for American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) for creative accomplishments in theatre productions staged at the University. At the regional competition (the eight-state Region VII), young theatre practitioners compete with almost 1,000 students from theatre programs throughout our region. Every April, the regional winners are then flown to Washington, D.C., for the national competition. There, they compete with the winners from the other seven U.S. regions, where a panel of discipline-discrete judges chooses national award winners made up of highly visible theatre professionals.

For more than a decade, CSU students distinguished themselves as regional and national award-winners in stage management, acting, lighting design, sound design, and playwriting.

CSU Theatre hosted the Region VII competition in 2012 and 2020.

KCACTF Awards and News

CSU students recognized for costume and lighting designs

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These Seven Sicknesses Oedipus 2021 Production Photo

KCACTF Region 7 awards first place in Design and Technology Management  to James Fagan for costume design on These Seven Sicknesses, and Natalie Doocey for lighting design on Dido and Aeneas! This is the highest honor in Design Technology and Management (DTM) awarded annually to just five recipients across the DTM areas. Fagan is a senior theatre major […]

CSU Production of Lysistrata recognized by KCACTF

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CSU Theatre students in Lysistrata

CSU Theatre Students Continue Achievements in Virtual Landscape

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How I Learned to Drive 2020 set photo

Earlier this semester, CSU students showcased their work at the annual Region 7 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), bringing together exceptional student actors and technicians from western states. The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival is a national theatre program with more than 20,000 participants annually. According to the organization’s website, “For 50 […]

CSU Theatre students achieve in new virtual landscape

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Earlier this semester, CSU students showcased their work at the annual Region 7 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), which brings together exceptional student actors and technicians from across the western states. The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival is a national theatre program, with more than 20,000 participants annually, and, according to the […]

Concord Floral recognized by KCACTF

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Concord Floral, by Jordan Tannahill, was turned into a digital production by CSU Theatre in Fall 2020. Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival representative, Mace Archer — artistic director and theatre instructor at Mt. Hood Community College — adjudicated the production. The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program, with more than 20,000 […]