RACHEL MOULTON is in her 7th Season as an Associate Artist and her 3rd Season FST’s Director of Education. Since 2012, she has performed in 17 productions (including 5 world premieres) at FST. NOTABLY: Birthday Candles, Ugly Lies the Bone, Grounded, Maytag Virgin, Paralyzed, Heisenberg, Honor Killing, Alabama Story, The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. SELECT REGIONAL: Pioneer Theatre Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage, and Florida Rep. OFF-BROADWAY: The Mint, Theatre 777, and Zelda Fitzgerald in the world premiere of This Side of Paradise (Theatre at St. Clement’s). TRAINING: Syracuse University, B.F.A., Graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Shakespeare & Company (trained under Dennis Krausnick and Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer). Proud union member of AEA (20 yrs). 

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.

CATHERINE RANDAZZO is an Associate Artist for FST. She serves as Literary Manager, in-residence director, teaching artist, and professional actor. She leads new play development, collaborates on Cabaret development, teaches adult education classes, and leads audience outreach programs. She recently directed That’s Amoré!; Outlaws and Angels; Light My Fire; and Unchained Melodies for the Cabaret and Buyer & Cellar for Stage III. She attended Otterbein University where she received her BFA in performance.

Ben Liebert is an Associate Artist at FST. He has directed and choreographed Jersey Boys, Lucky Stiff, Waitress, Dames at Sea, The World Goes Round, Peter Pan, Aesop’s Fables, Red Riding Hood and choreographed Junie B. Jones, Divas, Off the Charts, Up on the Roof, and Laughing Matters: Variant 6. Other direction/choreography includes Next to Normal, Into the Woods, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) and The Bomb-itty of Errors as well as new works at Theatre Aspen, the Metropolitan Room, Samuel French OOB Festival (festival winner), MST&DA, Planet Connections Festival, Studio Players, and Randomly Specific Theatre. On the other side of the table, Ben has appeared as an actor on Broadway in Wicked, off-Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish directed by Joel Grey, and regionally in Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, Ragtime, Chicago, Spamalot, and Avenue Q. He has taught for Temple University, U. of Mass. Amherst, Northern Stage, Theatre Aspen, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, and A Class Act NYC. Ben holds his BFA from NYU-Tisch.

Dellan Short (he/him) has been a proud member of the FST team for 3 years now, starting as a Literary Intern, then transitioning into a Literary Fellowship, before ending his time with the Professional training Program as an Acting Fellow. He is thrilled to be stepping up as a Resident Artist and Teaching Artist. You may have seen Dellan in any number of FST’s productions and readings including Advice (Burdick Festival), The Lehman Trilogy, Off the Charts, Junie B. Jones, The Flying Penguin, and Deck the Halls

DAVID STEIN is so excited to join the team at Florida Studio Theatre. He’s been working professionally in theater since he first started acting as a child at First Stage in Milwaukee. With his BFA in Acting from UW-Milwaukee, some of David’s favorite acting roles include Barrel in URINETOWN (UW-Milwaukee), Mr. Harari in RUINED (UW-Milwaukee) Igor in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (Theatre Tallahassee) and Duncan in THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT (Bay Area Children’s Theatre) After school, David went to work with The Bay Area Children’s Theater in San Francisco where he was an apprentice, teaching classes and acting in their shows. From California, David went back to Milwaukee to enter the world of radio and was the on air Morning Show producer for the award winning Elizabeth & Radar show at 99.1 The Mix! While working there he also was the theater correspondent, interviewing cast members of the touring Broadway shows. David and his partner Hannah wrote and produced an original farce NOT TODAY in Milwaukee, unfortunately COVID cut the run short (but you can watch the play on YouTube!). In his free time, David loves to bake and make funny videos, from food tastings to comedy sketches. Theater runs through his veins, and he is ecstatic to be a part of the team at FST.

JIM PROSSER is the Resident Pianist at FST. Over his many years at FST, Jim has most often performed in the Cabaret, where he has arranged and co-developed many shows including Dancing In The Street, By Gershwin, Laughing Matters, European Cabaret, That’s Life, British Invasion, Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, Harry Who?, Too Darn Hot, and last season’s production of Never Marry A Girl With Cold Feet. He has also served as resident composer/music director for FST’s Education department, writing numerous songs and scores for children’s shows such as Androcles and the Lion, RAP-Punzel, and the WRITE A PLAY elementary tours.

Dr. Martha Velez-Reid - Teaching Artist - Spoken Memoir - Is the winner of the Los Angeles Award for Playwriting and Acting, for her play Power of the Powerless/American Heartbeat. Broadway: Lead in HAIR. Off-Broadway: Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth, Shadowbox. TV: E.R., L.A. Law, aka Pablo, Falcon Crest. Films: Star Maps, Safe (Julianne Moore), Fatherhood (Halle Berry/Patrick Swayze),187 (Samuel L. Jackson) Sire/Warner Bros. Recordings w/Eric Clapton (Fiends and Angels), Bob Marley/Wailers (Escape From Babylon) PhD in Depth Psychology, M.A. in Clinical Psych. Harvard Teaching Certification. Member: AEA, SAG, Dramatist Guild,League of Professional Theatre Women and more.

Meg is a NYC born and raised theater director, producer and educator. With over a decade of experience in the professional theater, Meg is currently the Producer for Parity Productions, a NYC theatre production company that champions the work of women, trans and gender expansive artists. She also teaches public speaking for Cornell University, is the Social Media Manager for the League of Professional Theatre Women, and is a teaching artist at The Van Wezel Foundation. Prior to that, she served as Literary Associate at Florida Studio Theatre.

Laura Parker loves being an educator and has taught acting, dance, and writing for over 15 years. She was most recently onstage in Urbanite Theatre’s Modern Works Festival. Her film and TV credits include roles in CSI:NY, Castle, and Star Trek: Into Darkness, and her favorite theatre credit is Olga in The Three Sisters (The Actor’s Center, NY).

Laura has her MFA in Acting from The ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard University and her BA from University of Pennsylvania.

Kevin Allen is an improviser, actor, and writer with 20+ years of stage experience. He holds multiple degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia and trained at Improv Olympic (iO) and Second City in Chicago. He has written for the Chicago Sun-Times, ESPN, Time Out, Fox Sports, MSN, SRQ Magazine, Sarasota Magazine, and more. As a marketing creative and executive, he builds award-winning programs for Fortune 500 brands, most recently IBM and Discover Financial Services.

HELENA RANKIN is an early career artist originally from Ithaca, NY.  Helena thoroughly enjoys being a musician on the FST Improv Mainstage cast and playing piano for Education classes. In her spare time she enjoys reading, composing/playing music, going to the gym, hiking, contemplating life, and learning Portuguese!

Autumn Steiner is an improviser, actor, and storyteller. Since 2018, she has performed regularly as a member of the Florida Studio Theatre Improv cast. She played Lisa in the short film Barely Inspired, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival. She holds a bachelor's degree in professional writing from Ohio Northern University.