The official archive for the Kennedy Center American CollegeTheater Festival, Region III, is located at the Jerome Lawrenceand Robert E. Lee TheatreResearch Institute at The Ohio State University.

theatreinst@osu.edu or 614/292-6614

Stage managers may participate in the festival in two ways. To participate in either or both, a stage manager must be NOMINATED by the director of an associate or participating entry which the student stage managed (or appropriate faculty mentor if the director is also a student).

Regional Stage Management (10 Minute Play Festival)
National Stage Management (KCACTF Stage Management Award)
Nomination Procedure

Regional Stage Management (10Minute Play Festival)

Upon receipt of a nomination, the regional vice-chair for design and technology will notify the nominee and ask him or her to submit

A current resume  

A short statement describing their philosophy and approach to stage management

At the regional selection committee meeting in early December, the regional chairs of Design and Technology, Directing and Playwriting will select stage managers for each 10-minute play invited to the festival. Selection will be based on the strength application materials.

Stage managers will then be provided contact information with the playwright and director. At the festival, the stage managers will fulfill the expected duties for their play. There is no advancement to the national festival.

National Stage Management
(Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival StageManagement AWARD)

The purpose of the KCACTF Stage Management Award is to provide student stage managers with feedback from professionals working in the field; to give outstanding student stage managers national recognition; and to provide the opportunity for student managers to attend the national festival at the Kennedy Center. 

This is a National-eligible award, meaning that one stage manager will be selected at the regional festival to attend the National Festival in Washington DC.

Students nominated for this award will need to prepare a display to bring to the regional festival. Stage managers are encouraged to include all of the following materials in their display. (Please note that an inability to provide all requested materials should not discourage or prevent students from participating in the stage management competition)

A one-page statement of the stage manager's production management approach.

1. Documentation
1. At least one representative production photograph, in color, labeled as to scene/locale. It should illustrate the entire setting and its relationship to the stage and theatre space.
2. Playbill or program from the production.
2. Process: visual information such as
1. Effective collaboration with director, performers, designers, and production staff
2. Effective management of rehearsal and performance process
3. Team building and personnel management
4. Effective use of resources
5. Preparation of schedules, shift plots and running-sheets
6. Script notation and calling the show
3. Implementation: visual information such as
1. Prompt book/sample script with cues and blocking.
2. Effective use of schedules, lists, plots and running-sheets for one performance.
3. Computer applications
4. Indication of communication style of stage manager such as examplesof email correspondence
5. Any other materials used to accomplish job
4. All materials must be labeled with the play title and playwright and the student stage manager's name. Wherever possible the name of the stage manager's college or university should not be visible on the front of any materials.  

Be careful to maintain the privacy of individuals. Do not include any paperwork that might indicate private information of cast, crew, orproduction staff. Examples: Any lists with social security numbers, medical information forms, or address and phone numbers. 

It is strongly recommended that students bring their materials in person to the design exhibit space at the specifically scheduled time for installation of all exposition materials. Students will be notified of these times via email. Stage management nominees must attend their regional festival, and display their materials, in order to be eligible for nomination to the National Stage Management Award.  The student stage manager may also send their materials in advance to the host of the regional festival. The stage manager is responsible for developing a suitable method of shipping; return postage and packaging must be included for the work to be returned via mail. 

At the regional festival, a guest professional (or professionals) will respond to the work of all national-eligible stage management nominees who are present at their regional festival, in a public forum.  One stage management winner from the region (national stage management finalist) will be selected. The selection of national finalists shall include the guest respondent/s; the selection process may include other guest respondents as determined by the regional design & technology chair.  

The stage management finalist will be announced at the regional festival. National stage management finalists will be invited to attend the national festival in Washington, D.C in April. 

The National Festival
KCACTF will provide national finalists with travel, shared hotel accommodations and per diem for the period of national festival (normally Tuesday through Saturday). Attendance at the National Festival is not mandatory; however, the National KCACTF Stage Management Award will be determined by a student's work assignments, and participation in workshops and master classes, while at the national festival. Faculty mentors are not able to observe workshops or master classes held during the national festival week.

Nominating Student Stage Managers for the 10-minute play festival (Regional) or the KCACTF Stage Management Award (National-eligible)
Faculty nominators must download and complete a REGION 3 STAGE MANAGEMENT NOMINATIONForm. On the form, you may nominate the stage manager for either competition, or for both.

NOTE: Only students who have stage managed an associate or participating KCACTF entry are eligible. Student stage managers must be nominated by the director of the production they stage managed (or appropriate faculty mentor if the director is also a student).

On completing the nomination form, the nominator must provide a detailed letter of nomination. The letter of nomination must address the effectiveness of the student stage manager's collaboration, team-building, and communication with director, actors, designers and production staff; the effectiveness of their personnel management skills; their effectiveness of time management at rehearsal and performance; the effectiveness of their process, including paperwork, script notations and calling the show; and the effective use of resources.

The nomination form AND the letter of nomination must be sent by mail, fax,or email to

Gion DeFrancesco
Region III Co-vice Chair for Design and Technology
Miami University Dept. of Theatre
208 Hiestand Hall
Oxford OH, 45056

Fax: 513.529.4048

Email defranga@muohio.edu

NOMINATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY NOVEMBER 1, 2007
(you may submit a nomination for work "in progress" so long as the productionwill open before Dec. 31, 2007)

Note: Only bona fide students are eligible for nomination to this award. A bona fide student is: a)an undergraduate student who is registered for a minimum of six semester hours or nine quarter hours at the time of production; b) a graduate student who is enrolled for three semester or four quarter hours at the time of production;c) a continuing part-time student who is enrolled in a regular degree program at the time of production.