KATE ALEXANDER is the Associate Director of FST and the Founder of the FST Theatre School. Ms. Alexander has directed numerous productions and premieres on the FST stages including Becoming Dr. Ruth; Freud’s Last Session; Thurgood; South Beach Babylon; The Columnist; Talley’s Folly; Jericho; Next Fall; The Savannah Disputation; Ghost- Writer; Two Jews Walk into a War...; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Sylvia; Shotgun; The Miamians; Brooklyn Boy; The Exonerated; Wit; Proof; Lobby Hero; and Ten Unknowns. Ms. Alexander is also a resident actress for the past 20 years. Some of her leading roles were seen in the plays: Golda’s Balcony which was reprised at the PlayHouse on Park, Edward Albee’s The Goat; Filumena; Master Class; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby. Ms. Alexander is the recipient of numerous acting, directing and public service awards, including FAER, She Knows Where She’s Going Award (Girls, Inc.), The Woman of Light Award, National Council of Jewish Women, The Woman of Power Award, the Sarasota County Arts Leadership Award, Education Award, Sarasota Manatee Jewish Federation, and most recently The Unity Award. She is also the co-author of The Animated Short, co-authored by Karen Sullivan, with a second edition now available.

GRACIANY MIRANDA Off-Broadway: La Barberia (HOLA Award). Regional: Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles, Jack in Leading Ladies, Chillie in South Beach Babylon (FST, directed by Kate Alexander), and Partridge in the world premiere of Tom Jones (FST). Favorite NYC Shakespeare roles include Iago, Richard III, Richard II, and Benedick. Directing: Albee’s Finding the Sun, Shakespeare Quaffers, Cupid Painted Blind, and Hedda Gabler. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico.