Zach Braff opens up about play he wrote

Garden State and Scrubs star Zach Braff’s off-Broadway play All New People is set to debut at the end of the month.

Concerning the play, Braff stated, "All New People takes place in the dead of winter on Long Beach Island, a summer vacation spot in New Jersey. In order to rent for the summer, you go down in the winter and look at houses, but when you go down, it's just this giant, snow-covered ghost town — a beach community, and nobody's there.”

Braff tapped into his own experiences when writing the play. Before buying his father a shore house, he visited Long Beach Island during the off-season. He remarked, “It was so spooky and desolate — the perfect setting for something. That was the impetus. Then I put in this place lots of things that were swirling about [that] I wanted to write about.”

According to the NY Times the play is presently in previews and is set to open on July 25.

Braff recently signed on to play Frank in 2013’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz.