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707-775-8734
DEZI GALLEGOS and NATALIE HERMAN present…
YESTERDAY AGAIN
New work by award-winning 19-year-old playwright, directed by theatre veteran
July 24th
– August 16th
, 2015
This summer, 6th
Street Playhouse, Lucky Penny Productions, and homegrown talents Dezi Gallegos and
Natalie Herman have teamed up to bring you the world premiere of YESTERDAY AGAIN. This brand-
new drama by award-winning playwright Dezi Gallegos follows Eric Baxter and Bella Kadie over the
course of 25 years. Playing with the idea that the past, present, and future all exist at the same time, the
new play portrays Eric and Bella as children, teenagers, and adults—simultaneously. Poetic in its form
and honest in its portrayals, this original theatre piece promises a breathtaking form of storytelling; one
where three distinct periods of life intersect, interweave, and in their interplay, probe at love’s relationship
with time.
Directed by Sheri Lee Miller, the cast includes such esteemed North Bay artists as Executive Artistic
Director Craig A. Miller and Co-Executive Director Barry Martin (of 6th
Street Playhouse and Lucky
Penny Productions, respectively) and features an extraordinarily talented ensemble ranging in age from 14
to late 50s. YESTERDAY AGAIN premieres at 6th
Street Playhouse on July 24th
and runs through
August 2nd
. It then moves to Lucky Penny Community Arts Center in Napa and runs August 7th
– 16th
.
Tickets ($15-$25) to the 6th
Street run are available at www.6thstreetplayhouse.com or by calling (707)
523-4185 x1. Tickets to the Lucky Penny run are available at www.luckypennynapa.com or by calling
(707) 266-6305. Play performs Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
About the Playwright
Dezi Gallegos was 14 when he co-wrote and assistant directed the award-winning (now published) Prop 8
Love Stories, which received performances throughout the Bay Area before traveling to New York for a
two-week run Off-Broadway. At 16, he penned, directed, and co-starred in the uproarious comedy Quite
Dead at Cinnabar Theater. At 18, his one man-show God Fights the Plague received a 16-show run at
The Marsh in San Francisco, and his play Hamlet’s Orphans was nominated for Best Original Script by
the SF Bay Area Theater Critics Circle. 19-year-old Gallegos, now the recipient of the inaugural Annette
Lust Award for “Promising Theatrical Talent,” studies film at the University of Southern California.
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About the Director
Award-winning Sheri Lee Miller has directed such acclaimed shows as Arcadia, Crimes of the Heart and
Of Mice and Men at Cinnabar Theater, The Weir and T.I.C at Main Stage West, and Death of a Salesman
and Tartuffe at 6th Street Playhouse. She has directed multiple world premieres—including David
Templeton’s Wretch Like Me, which recently traveled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sheri has
performed and directed at some of the leading theaters on the West Coast including Seattle Repertory
Theatre, A Contemporary Theater, Tacoma Actors Guild, The Gaslamp Quarter Theater, Seattle
Children’s Theater, and Centerstage. Sheri is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
About the Play’s Co-Producers
Natalie Herman (currently 6th
Street Playhouse’s Interim General Manager) and Dezi Gallegos met when
they were 9 years old while enrolled in Cinnabar’s Young Repertory program. Their first show together
was directed by Sheri Lee Miller. It couldn’t be more fitting that this play about time and change and love
was born by a friendship that, over a decade after it began, has resisted the pulls and pressures of growing
older. Their work has brought together two theater companies, fourteen actors, and, on July 24th
, a world
premiere…
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FOR CALENDAR EDITORS
WHAT: This summer, homegrown talents Dezi Gallegos and Natalie Herman in collaboration with 6th
Street Playhouse, and Lucky Penny Productions have teamed up to bring you the world
premiere of YESTERDAY AGAIN. This original drama by award-winning playwright Dezi
Gallegos follows Eric Baxter and Bella Kadie over the course of 25 years. Playing with the idea
that the past, the present, and the future all exist at the same time, Eric and Bella will be seen as
children, teenagers, and adults—simultaneously. Poetic in its form and honest in its portrayals, this
original theatre piece promises a breathtaking form of storytelling; one where three distinct
periods of life intersect, interweave, and in their interplay, probe at love’s relationship with time.
WHERE:
6th
Street Playhouse
52 West 6th
Street
Santa Rosa, CA
Then…
Lucky Penny Community Arts Center
1758 Industrial Way,
Suites 204-209, Napa CA
WHEN: July 24th
– August 2nd
at 6th
Street Playhouse, August 7th
– 16th
at Lucky Penny Productions
3. Media Contact: Natalie Herman
Natalieherman07@gmail.com
707-775-8734
SHOWS: Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00, and Sundays at 2:00
TICKETS:
Range from $15-25
Tickets to the 6th
Street run are available online or at the 6th
Street box office. Visit
www.6thstreetplayhouse.com or call (707) 523-4185 x1 for more information.
Tickets to the Lucky Penny run are available at www.luckypennynapa.com or call (707) 266-6305.
PRESS: Contact Natalie Herman
Natalieherman07@gmail.com
707-775-8734