PRODUCTIONS

Registering your production makes students and faculty from your institution eligible to participate in all aspects of KCACTF, including performance, design, playwriting, directing, stage management, dramatic criticism & advocacy, and dramaturgy.

If you have not participated in KCACTF before and would like more information on what to expect
when you register a production please contact us at kcactf4chair@gmail.com and we will connect you with the person who can help you the most.

In-person, Associate productions have a single volunteer respondent, typically a colleague from another KCACTF participating school, is assigned to attend the performance and provide a verbal response to the student cast and crew. This is not an adjudication — it is a response from an informed audience member that covers the respondent’s overall impressions of the production, a discussion of the process and, possibly, some notes. The assignment of Associate Production respondents is facilitated by the area Response Coordinators.

In-person, Participating productions have two members of the Region Selection Team, a group composed of Region leadership, assigned to respond to Participating Productions. In addition to the nominations received for Associate productions, these respondents will participate in discussions with the Region Executive Committee regarding which Participating Productions will be invited to the Region Festival. The assignment of Participating Production respondents is facilitated by the Region Chair.

Directors for both Associate and Participating Productions nominate an Irene Ryan candidate and students in design, management, and dramaturgy.

Associate productions receive 2 Ryan nominations, while Participating productions receive 3.  Each respondent will select a Ryan candidate, and the director may select one.  Both respondents and directors may also nominate students in the relevant design, management, and dramaturgy categories.

All students nominated need to be enrolled in at least 6 credit hours at the time of the performance for which they are nominated.

Participating productions are ones in which the home institution is interested in consideration for travel to the regional festival. A written response by the respondents will be sent to the Region Chair with recommendations on consideration. At this time, schools can choose if they would like to be considered for invitation to the virtual festival. Selection material will be request after review of entries by the Region Selection Team.

There are no set number of shows to be invited to the regional festival; invitations are based on a variety of criteria including but not limited to overall quality, genre, and student work.

At the regional festival, members of the National Selection Team and of the National Executive committee attend and respond to the invited productions. Productions are considered for national recognition as a result of the responses given by these individuals.

Productions must be registered three weeks prior to opening night in order to allow the recruiting and assignment of respondents.