The goals of the Kennedy Center
American College Theater Festival 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; and 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.