Kennedy Center Announces Lineup of Plays for 42nd Annual American College Theater Festival

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced the lineup of productions that will be performed as part of the 42nd annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), to run April 13-17.

Three pieces in this year’s KCACTF have been invited to appear: Temple University’s production of Shot! (Requiem for a Bullet, by Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon; Richard Alger and Tina Kronis’ Anton’s Uncle from Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy; and Boston University’s production of Jenny Rachel Weiner’s diventare.

In addition, four short plays will be seen in the KCACTF’s Short Play Festival, including Cassius Sargent’s Chicken Bones by Asher Wyndham (Arizona State University), Priscilla Dreams the Answer by Walt McGough (Boston University), Nebraska by Noon by Briandaniel Oglesby (University of California-Riverside), and Before the Scaean Gate by Ken Willard (University of Kansas). One of these plays will win the John Cauble Short Play Award, which carries a $1,000 prize.

There are also five ten-minutes plays which will be presented and which will be competing for the KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award: Orphan Train by Julie Tosh (Carnegie-Mellon University), Twenty-4 by LeShawn Darnell Holcomb (California State University-Fullerton), Two Socks Discuss Loss by Walt McGough (Boston University), Girls Play by Masha Obolensky (Boston University), and a brief theory of the cosmos by Molly Hagan (Ohio University).

For further information, visit: www.kcactf.org.