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FST Improv
2025 Sarasota Improv Festival
FST Improv
2025 Sarasota Improv FestivalFST IMPROV (Sarasota, FL) Sarasota’s original anti-depressant. FST Improv is the place to go when you’re looking for some fun, need reminding that everyone is nuts, or have nowhere else to go. Inspired by audience suggestions, FST Improv creates characters and sketches completely on the spot. No one – not even the performers themselves – knows what is going to happen next. It is this element of the unknown that makes every FST Improv show unique, and what makes for some of the most exciting moments onstage.
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FST Improv Cast
SARAH DURHAM
DELLAN SHORT
KEVIN ALLEN
SAL PICCOLO
SYLVIA DAY
AUTUMN STEINER
DARRYL KNAPP
HELENA RANKIN
SARAH DURHAM is a comedian and writer from Campbellsville, Kentucky who believes in the power of laugher, storytelling, and creating spaces where everyone belongs. At FST, Sarah is a Resident Artist and the Associate Director of FST Improv, where she performs regularly, teaches for the FST School, and writes for the Children’s Theatre and cabarets. Sarah also leads original theatre projects for adults with disabilities in partnership with The Haven, creating inclusive, joy-filled productions that center acceptance and self-expression. She’s here for the weird, the warm, and the wonderfully unexpected.
AUTUMN STEINER was a comedy late bloomer, discovering FST during a quarter-life crisis. Now she’s a member of the FST Improv and On-Deck Sketch casts and dabbles in storytelling and acting. She played Lisa in the short film Barely Inspired, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival. She is working on a collection of personal essays titled Sweet Face, Black Heart—something a priest once said to her.
Festival Workshops
Our offerings allow you to learn from the experts with intimate trainings led by Festival artists from across the country and around the world. Featuring workshops in a wide range of improvisational styles and techniques, there is something for improvisers of all experience levels at the 2025 Sarasota Improv Festival. All workshops take place Saturday, July 19.