Open Access

The vitality and wellbeing of Florida Studio Theatre depends upon the existence of a culture of respect and connection between our artists, staff, and audience.

In order to achieve this, FST seeks to create an environment where different, cultures, and ideas are encouraged. FST embraces diversity in all its forms: in thought, in plays, and in people. The inclusion of difference(s) such as ability, age, background, beliefs, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and all other identities represented across staff, board, artists, and audiences help make us better equipped to serve our community. 

We are all unique. Every artist and every audience member bring their own self to the theatrical experience - their history, their story, their personal truths. Yet, we all access the same universal human condition. Theatre allows us to explore these truths together in collaboration - artists and audience - to explore what it means to be human and how together we create a better humanity. FST will continue to invest in sustained efforts to cultivate long-term, authentic relationships with current and prospective audiences and our wider community. We will do so while promoting generous, open, and respectful discourse and consideration of different perspectives.

FST's mission clearly states that we will present plays that “challenge with as much gusto as they entertain.” Accessibility is essential in all activities of our organization, both on and off stage. Ours is an ongoing process that embraces participation from everyone in the FST community - artists, staff, board, audience, and volunteers. We will learn and we will change, ever moving forward to what the great American playwright August Wilson called “a ground of being,” a land where we are far richer for our diverse people, talents, and experiences.