Premiere Stages At Kean University Debuts ANY OTHER NAME 9/4 Thru 9/20

ANY OTHER NAME, a new play by George Brant, is coming to Premiere Stages at Kean University September 4 through 20, Thursday through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, and on Friday, September 18 at 3pm at the Zella Fry Theatre. Premiere Stages is a professional Equity company. ANY OTHER NAME was the winner of the 2009 Premiere Stages Play Festival.

In 1840's London, a struggling poet visits his idol in search of inspiration, but instead unleashes a madness that feeds his insatiable hunger for fame. As art and ambition collide, how far will he go to make a name for himself in a world where the truth cannot be trusted?

Tickets are $25 for standard admission, $20 for seniors, and $15 for students. To buy tickets, visit www.keanstage.com or call 908-737-7469.

Premiere Stages is committed to supporting emerging playwrights by developing and producing new plays. We provide playwrights with an encouraging and focused environment in which they can develop their work through discussions, rehearsals, sit-down readings, staged readings, and fully produced Equity productions.

At Premiere Stages, we pride ourselves on a uniquely accelerated process, in which plays we find particularly promising are developed and fully produced within a year of submission. In many professional theatres the time span between meeting a writer, staging a reading and producing the play can be years. At Premiere Stages, immediately following the Spring Readings, two plays enter an intensive development phase. Playwrights work with a director, dramaturg, and design team to develop the play for a staged workshop or full production only a few months later. When we find a writer we believe in, our play festival process allows Premiere Stages to fully commit the time, talent, and resources necessary to share their work with a broad regional audience.

Premiere Stages' productions offer playwrights the chance to see their work fully realized on stage. We hope, however, that the plays developed at Premiere will go on to subsequent productions throughout the country. Because of this, playwrights whose scripts we produce retain the coveted "World Premiere" brand on their plays. Premiere Stages also strives to facilitate relationships between playwrights and other theatres professionals who we think will respond to their work.

Submission to the Premiere Play Festival is open to playwrights living in the greater metropolitan area (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania) and there is no fee to enter. A cash prize is awarded to the three finalists, and the winner of the Festival is guaranteed a slot in the upcoming main stage season.

All plays submitted to the festival are evaluated by a professional panel of theatre producers, dramaturgs, playwrights, scholars and publishers.