Stage Crafters mourns loss of beloved stage manager Pamela Strecker

Stage Crafters mourns loss of beloved stage manager Pamela Strecker

Before every performance, Pamela Strecker made one final walk. She moved through the backstage area from one side to the other, checking on every actor, calling out final cues, making sure nothing had been missed. Then, just before heading up to the booth, she would turn around, look out at the cast and raise a hand in the air. "Be brilliant." It caught on. Cast members started saying it to each other. Strecker,61, who served as stage manager an…

Stage Crafters mourns loss of beloved stage manager Pamela Strecker | Santa Rosa Press Gazette

Born May 17, 1964, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, Strecker graduated high school in 1982 as class president. Her father worked in the energy industry, which eventually brought the family to the Fort Walton Beach area. Over the years she worked as a paralegal in California, a real estate agent in Alabama and later in banking in Florida. It was her paralegal work with attorney Walter Steigleman, who was involved with Stage Crafters at the time, tha…