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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.
Since its inception, KCACTF has given more than 400,000 college theater students the opportunity to have their work critiqued, improve their dramatic skills, and receive national recognition for excellence. More than 16 million theatergoers have attended approximately 10,000 festival productions nationwide.
KCACTF Region 8 annual college festival.
We're taking a group of students to compete for a place at nationals held in DC. There are awards in acting, costume, and design given. These past 2 years, we’ve won both regionally and nationally and hope to continue that streak again this year.
Please sponsor one of our students on their trip to Mesa, Arizona.
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/opportunities-for-artists/pre-professional-artist-training/kcactf/
2024 KCACTF Award Recipients
COSTUME AWARDS
Luz Stehelin (Going Mad: Alice in Hollywoodland)
Los Angeles City College
2024 National Recipient
Recipients of 2024 “Heart of the Art” Award:
Melanie Hatzenbühler
(A Mexican Trilogy, An American Story – Charity (Part III))
Los Angeles City College
IRENE RYANS ACTING SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Alex Bravo
Los Angeles City College
2024 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship National Finalist Partner
NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTING PROGRAM AWARDS
Alex Bravo
Los Angeles City College
2024 Outstanding Actor in a 10-Minute Play
NEXT STEPS AWARDS
2024 Fresh and New Award
Christian Venegas
Los Angeles City College
DRAMATURGY AWARD
Emma Baker
Los Angeles City College
2024 LMDA/KCACTF STUDENT DRAMATURGY REGION 8 ALTERNATE
2023 KCACTF Award Recipients
Invited Production Award
LACC THEATRE ACADEMY
for Melancholia
Directed by José Luis Valenzuela
Maria Catarina Copelli
2023 National KCACTF Award
Theatrical Design Excellence
Costume design for Melancholia
2023 Student Choice Award Costume Design
Emma Baker
2023 LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award
2023 Outstanding performance in a 10-minute monologue.
Isaiah Noriega
2023 Outstanding performance in a 10-minute monologue.
Jayla Jones
2023 Outstanding Devised Work
Jorge "Miami" Berrios
2023 Best Acting in Devised Monologue
John A Garofalo
2023 Golden Wrench for superior work as a TD
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Co-organizers (1)
August TwentyNinth
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Gene Barnhart
Co-organizer