New Dystopian Comedy KEYS to Premiere at Broadway Bound Theatre Festival

KEYS is a fresh, absurdist, and darkly comic new play making its New York premiere August 9 at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.

Written by award-winning actor and playwright Mark Adrian Ford, this is a play about perseverance. Set in a dystopian realm, a spirited woman named Heroina must search through the seemingly innumerable Mountain of Keys. She is given the right to search until she dies. If she can find the correct key (while fending off unexpected sabotage from con artists, guards, peers and High Judges) it will open the Great Door to Paradise, improving her life forever. So she's been told.

"This is a story about a feisty, middle-aged woman who is dead set on creating a better life for herself," says director Alison Preece. "It's unique, inspiring, and devastatingly funny."

Performances are August 9th (12:30 pm); August 12th (10:30 pm); and August 15th (7:30 pm) at 14th Street Y Theatre, 344 E. 14th Street, New York, NY 10003.

KEYS is being presented as part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, a New York Times pick for the Top 15 Theater Festivals to see this summer, nationwide!

The festival is operated by best-selling author & playwright Lenore Skomal (Bluff), award-winning marketer Melissa Gordon and Bear In Mind Creative partner Abby Judd. The festival panel is comprised of award-winning producers and industry professionals with accreditation internationally as well as in New York.

The BBTF Panel is: Robin Rice; StageWrite Women's Theatre Initiative Award, Chris Phillips; New York Int'l Fringe Festival Award, David Stallings; New York Innovative Theatre Award, Roger Gonzales; LocalTheatreNY, Magda Nyiri; CT Commissioner's AIDS Leadership Award, Emma Goldman-Sherman; Jane Chambers Award, Shane Snider; TriBeCa / Cannes, Malini Singh McDonald; Theatre Beyond Broadway, Valerie David; Congeniality Award, Planet Activists Award and more!

Starring Brenda Crawley (The Nat'l Black Theatre, Negro Ensemble Co.), Ed Ryan (AADA), John Carhart (William Esper Studio, The Brick), Constance Cooper (DifFractions Theatre), Peter Kendall (Half Moon Theatre), Zelda Gay (Manhattan Rep., La MaMa)

Director: Alison Preece (www.AlisonPreece.com)

Writer: Mark Adrian Ford (www.MarkFord.ca)

Stage Manager: Niki Hatzidis (www.NikiHatzidis.com)

Info: www.BroadwayBoundFestival.com

Tickets: 14streety.secure.force.com/ticket#details_a0S36000003FIbyEAG