Premiere Stages Announces Four Finalists for 2025 Premiere Play Festival

The 2025 Play Festival Finalists. From Left to Right: Dominic Finocchiaro, Gloria Majule, Dave Osmundsen and Dacyl Acevedo.

(UNION, NJ) — Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, has selected its four finalists for the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. Now in its 20th year, the Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights with strong affiliations to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware. This year’s finalists were selected from 805 submissions.

This year’s finalists are: Lia Del Mar by Dacyl Acevedo, a member of Dramatic Question Theatre, who is currently working with Latinx Playwrights’ Circle; angel’s share by…