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AACTFest Handbook
The AACTFest 2025 Handbook is the essential resource for festival hosts and performing companies. It includes guidelines for festival planning, adjudication, and participation. Download the complete Handbook or access individual sections and required forms to ensure a smooth festival experience.
Pre-Festival
National Festival
AACTFest Cycle
AACTFest 2025 Handbook
For the festival host & performing companies
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The AACTFest 2025 Handbook is designed for the festival host and performing companies entering the 2025 Festival. It supersedes information in all previous Handbooks.
- The Handbook is available for download in its entirety, below.
- For those who do not need the entire Handbook, the Adjudication Guide and the Festival Chair Guide) can be downloaded, separately.
- The Forms & Forms Submission Checklist (coming soon) specifies which forms are submitted online, and which are submitted via PDF documents.
- For companies selected to appear at the national festival, Forms T1, T2, T4, and Program Information are online forms that, when completed, will be forwarded to the Festival Chair.
- The Affidavit of Actor Eligibility form is in PDF format, and will soon be available for download.
- Our article on "Cutting a Play--Legally" may be helpful in meeting festival time & legal requirements.
AACTFest 2025 Handbook
- Complete Handbook - View/Download
- Adjudication Guide section only - View/Download
- Festival Chair Guide section only - View/Download
- AACTFest 2025 Forms & Forms Submission Checklist - View/Download
- Affidavit of Actor Eligibility (Form T3) only - View/Download
Forms to be Completed Online
- State/Region Festival Information - View/Complete
- Entry Information (Form T1) - View/Complete
- Warranty of Company Compliance (Form T2) - View/Complete
- Technical Information Form (Form T4) - View/Complete
- Program Information Form - View/Complete
(For companies advancing from state to regional festival)