The Ohio Community Theatre Association was formed in December 1953 with sixteen theatres. For over 54 years, OCTA has provided support to community theatres through workshops, through the annual regional OCTAFests showcasing community theatre productions, and though our three-day annual conference.

Today, OCTA serves over 100+ member theatres in five Ohio state regions including member theatres from across the Ohio River, Kentucky and West Virginia!

Ongoing activities include this web site, a newsletter - CueLines - published five times a year, an annual call to conference, script lending library, guide/respondent/speakers bureau, monographs updating the OCTA Manual and, resource directory used to locate props, costumes, equipment, etc. We do this with an all-volunteer Board of Directors and one part-time paid staff position.

Take a moment to meet OCTA's Historian

Here is OCTA's Hall of Fame

Here is a list of Past Presidents

Here is a list of Past Conference Chairs