Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize "Come Again" as a Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. "Come Again" rose through a competitive selection, led by Premiere staff and an external panel of professionals to become one of 78 Semi-Finalists out of 805 submissions. The panel was impressed by how the play blends comedy, climate change, economics, religion, and politics. Our congratulations and thanks to Lisa.

Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend plays are irresistible. Here she takes a real-world examination of Jesus appearing to Marina, asking her to be his prophet on climate change and get a few moments with the governor.
The hilarious, adorable banter between the characters helps further land the real-world concerns throughout (this is NOT a preachy play, therefore it should be produced as much as possible everywhere on Earth Day and any other environmentally-conscious calendar date).
And then.

If ever we needed a Second Coming, even a "relentlessly, annoyingly cheerful" one, it would be now. A chance to put things right. And if anyone were to put it into words, like unwilling prophet Marina finds herself having to do, to speak for Jesus, it would be, it IS, Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend. "I like that you’re holding onto a bygone era..." I like that this playwright can attack so many charged topics as well as her character does. "God’s not flooding the earth. You people are." Lovely. Charming and gut-punchingly funny. Classic.