Plays by the following twenty-seven English Alternative Theatre student playwrights were featured at various festivals of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

"Graf Spee"
by Ken Willard

Festival 26 (1994)
Overland Park, KS

"Canvas"
by Sarah Zercher

Festival 27 (1995)
Lincoln, NE

"The Beadsman"
by Brian Boies

Festival 27 (1995)
Lincoln, NE

"The Devil's Game"
by Bo Price


Festival 28 (1996)
St. Louis, MO


"Upright"
by James Hilburn

Festival 30 (1998)
Overland Park, KS

"Pterodactyls"
by Scott Ferree

Festival 31 (1999)
Ames, IA
Was also performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

"Bereft"
by Nick Woods

Festival 32 (2000)
Sioux Falls, SD

"Bunnies"
by Michael O'Brien

Festival 33 (2001)
Overland Park, KS
Was also performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

"Whiteout"
by Alan Newton

Festival 33 (2001)
Overland Park, KS
Selected as Winner of
Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award!!

"Big Envelopes"
by Matthew Hubbard

Festival 33 (2001)
Overland Park, KS

"Mourning Glorie"
by Kirby Fields

Festival 34 (2002)
Lincoln, NE

"Two Faces of Deception"
by David Huffman


Festival 34 (2002)
Lincoln, NE

"The Smog Also Rises"
by Paul Shoulberg

Festival 35 (2003)
Cedar Falls, IA

"One Last Time"
by Carol Dias-da-Silva


Festival 35 (2003)
Cedar Falls, IA

"Ketchup"
by Kristin Soper

Festival 35 (2003)
Cedar Falls, IA

"Attack of the Asians"
by Tim Macy

Festival 35 (2003)
Cedar Falls, IA
Was also performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

"Fatherland"
by Adam Merker

Festival 35 (2003)
Cedar Falls, IA
Was also a prize-winning play at the ATHE Conference in San Diego.

"The Story of Izanagi and Izanami"
by Kristen Wirsig

Festival 36 (2004)
Denver, CO
Was also performed at the Kennedy Center
in Washington, DC.
Selected as the National Winner!!

"The Option"
by Elizabeth Dean

Festival 37 (2005)
St. Louis, MO

"Weaving the Rain"
by Dianne Yeahquo Reyner

Festival 37 (2005)
St. Louis, MO

"An Army of One"
by Zacory Boatright

Festival 38 (2006)
Fargo, ND & Moorhead, MN

"Painting the Town"
by Emily Laut

Festival 39 (2007)
Ames, IA

"Suicide by Punchbowl"
and
"Lights Fade, Curtain"
(Staged Reading)
by Whitney Rowland


Festival 39 (2007)
Ames, IA


"Leaves of Words"
by Tim Macy

Festival 39 (2007)
Ames, IA

"The Gazelle"
by Nick Medved

Festival 40 (2008)
Omaha, NE

"Erika's Kite"
and
"Lights, Fade, Curtain"
(full production)
by Whitney Rowland


Festival 40 (2008)
Omaha, NE

"Horse Traders"
by Brian Blevins


Festival 41 (2009)
Lawrence, KS

"Before the Scaean Gate"
by Ken Willard


Festival 42 (2010)
JCCC, Overland Park
Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
Ken Willard

Ken Willard at KCACTF in DC

"Mother of the Bride"
by Kim Condon


Festival 43 (2011)
Ames, IA
Ken Willard

"Fortune 500"
by Saira Jehangir Khan


Festival 43 (2011)
Ames, IA
Ken Willard

Irene Ryan Acting Award
Megan Dillingham

Festival 31 (1999)
Ames, IA
Selected as National
Irene Ryan Acting Award Winner!!

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