Dezi Gallegos

Dezi Gallegos is an award-winning playwright based in Los Angeles, California.

Dezi Gallegos
Born (1995-09-08) September 8, 1995
Petaluma, California
EducationUniversity of Southern California

Biography

Dez Gallegos (usually referred to as "Dezi"), was born on September 8, 1995 in Petaluma, California. He began his writing career at the age of eight when he gained county-wide fame for penning a 300-page fan-fiction manuscript for JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.[1]

In 2010, Gallegos co-wrote and assistant directed Walking Elephant Theater Company's Prop 8 Love Stories. The show toured throughout the California Bay Area before performing in New York's Off-Broadway for two weeks.[2] The production was named as Broadway World's "Best Special Theater Event" of 2010. Prop 8 Love Stories was published in 2012.[3]

Throughout his high school career, Gallegos wrote and directed Quite Dead (2012) and God Fights the Plague (2014). The latter was a one-man show in San Francisco's historic The Marsh Theater.[4] In 2015 he was awarded the Annette Lust Award for Promising Theatrical Talent presented by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.[5]

While working as faculty for Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma, CA, Gallegos worked with a group of 9-14 year olds to write, direct, and produce Hamlet's Orphans (2014), a production which was chosen for Best Original Script by the SFBATCC.[6]

In 2015, Gallegos gave a talk entitled "The Human Behind the Hashtag" at the Sonoma County TED (conference).[7] Earlier that year he had released a production of his newest drama, Yesterday Again. The show was awarded the 2016 SOTA Award for Best New Play as well as named one of North Bay Stage and Screen's "Top Ten Torn Tickets of 2015".[8]

Gallegos has been featured in KQED,[9] The Daily Californian,[10] and The San Francisco Examiner,[11] among other periodicals. He was nominated as one of Sonoma County's "30 under 30"(2016),[12] and is currently a film student at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California.

Written works
  • Harry Potter and the Fang of the Serpent (2003) unpublished
  • Prop 8 Love Stories (Booktrope Editions, 2012). ISBN 9781935961116
  • Quite Dead (2012)
  • God Fights the Plague (2014)
  • Hamlet's Orphans (2014)
  • Yesterday Again (2015)

References
  1. "Harry Potter and the Fang of the Serpent". HPANA. HPANA. 2003-10-17.
  2. "Prop 8 Love Stories". Walking Elephant Theater Co. Blogspot. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  3. Prop 8 Love Stories. Amazon. Booktrop Editions. November 2012. ISBN 978-1935961116.
  4. "Dezi Gallegos". The Marsh. The Marsh. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  5. Ted, Sillanpaa (2015-02-15). "Petaluma theater prodigy earns honor". Argus Courier. Petaluma 360. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  6. "2014 Noms/Recipients". San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle - Bay Area Theatre News and Reviews. SFBATCC. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  7. "Theme: Trending Now". Ted. Ted Conferences, LLC. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  8. Templeton, David (2015-12-30). "Top Ten Torn Tickets of 2015". North Bay Stage and Screen. Wordpress. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  9. Hurwitt, Sam (2014-06-24). "Are you there God? It's me, Dezi". KQED Arts. KQED Inc. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  10. Socol, David (2014-06-30). "'God Fights the Plague' through 18-year-old solo performer Dezi Gallegos". The Daily Californian. 2016 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  11. Katz, Leslie (2014-06-29). "Dezi Gallegos' engaging quest in 'God Fights the Plague'". San Francisco Examiner. The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  12. Balicki, Janet (2016-09-13). "30 inspiring individuals 30 and under from Sonoma County". Argus Courier. Petaluma 360. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
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