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Eileen Bagnell
Eileen Bagnell was my primary contact at the Arizona Theater
Company, and its basically because of her that we were able
to do everything we did, both as Quicksilver and Horror Unspeakble.
Eileen was a no-nonsense, level-headed lady, red-haired, bespectacled
and always willing to let me use as much stage blood as I wanted
so long as we cleaned up after ourselves. She even let us hang
glow stars all over the Cabaret Theater for the Horror Unspeakable
Production of Vincent of Gilgamesh, and when my sister used
mountains of glitter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream she
only had a small heart attack. After the first couple productions
Eileen would call us when space was available and work little
miracles to get us advance rehearsal time, later hours and pretty
much everything else we needed. When the rates went up, ours
stayed the same and even when she complained about what a bother
we could be, and we really could be a bother sometimes, you
could tell she was happy to have us and be helping, and not
just because we always paid the rent on time. To me, Eileen
will always remain an excellent example of how a theater professional
can, in a small way, make a huge difference in the independent
or community theater scene, simply by making themselves available
and encouraging the ambition of those people outside of the
professional circuit by doing little more than making a few
phone calls or bending the rules within the lines of a contract.
I truly mean it when I say I wouldn’t have gotten all
this done without her.
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