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20 November 2020

While most of us would admit there haven’t been a lot of silver linings during the Coronavirus pandemic, Camera Assistant Penny Sprague has found a few.

Among them: the opportunity to take a COVID-19 Contact Tracing course from Johns Hopkins University; time to think about going back to school for her Masters degree and, perhaps, eventually teaching; the fact that her two dogs have never been happier; and getting to work with Ryan Murphy again on Prom back in July when the film was one of the early productions to go back to work.

“I went through periods of really enjoying being off, reconnecting with my family, my dogs and my house, to being down, then hopeful, a whole slew of emotions that I’m sure everyone had,” the 32-year union veteran noted. “Now I’m just kind of anxious to get back to working full time. There are always things you can pull from a negative, and I tried to do that because being off work for months can be daunting.”

In a career that began in the late 1980s, Sprague hasn’t had much downtime. Moving between features and TV, she has worked on CSI, Mad Men, Boston Public and multiple shows with Murphy. A Tennessee native, Sprague followed in the footsteps of her father, John, a gaffer who had his own production company. Sprague first got her hands on a camera at age 12. By the time she was a junior in high school, she was already a union member in Chicago. She was a member of Locals 666, 659 and 644 before the merger.

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