Governance

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;

• To provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight; and achieve professionalism;

• To improve the quality of college and university theater in America;

• To 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.