Dr. Rebecca Hilliker is currently serving as the National Vice-Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and served on the National Selection Team for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2005. She received the Kennedy Center Medallion for her six years as Chair and Vice Chair for Region VII and her service as Chair of Chairs for the National organization. She received the Horace Robinson Award from the Northwest Drama Conference, a prestigious award given just once a year to individuals that have made major contributions to the Northwest Drama Conference and American College Theatre Festival in the region. She was president of NWDC for three years. Rebecca established a yearly program of producing original student-written works for the festival and has directed a number of these works which received national recognition. ACETYLENE won the American College Theatre Festival/Kennedy Center national competition and was showcased at the Kennedy Center in the Spring of l994 and LEMON 714 won the regional KC/ACTF competition and was performed at the Northwest Drama Conference/ACTF Region VII festival in Eugene, Oregon in February 1995. LEMON 714 received honorable mention from the ACTF national selection team.  She has received 8 KCACTF Meritorious Achievement Awards in directing.

Dr. Hilliker has published extensively in the areas of Theatre History and Dramatic Literature in such journals as THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES, 19TH CENTURY THEATRE, NEW ENGLAND THEATRE JOURNAL, JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, WITHIN THE DRAMATIC SPECTRUM, and FROM THE BARD TO BROADWAY. She is twice winner of the Amy and Eric Berger Award for original essays in theatre.

Rebecca Hilliker received a faculty development grant, travel grant and a Wyoming Arts Council grant to take a production of TRIFLES by Susan Glaspel to the University of Tel-Aviv for a conference designed too look at the play from the perspective of society and the law. She directed the production in-conjunction with Bas Bleu Theatre and Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The play was the center of focus for the festival with discussions by lawyers, sociologists, theatre and English historians, and artists from all over the world.