Florida Studio Theatre (FST) has announced a generous gift of $500,000 from the Muriel O’Neil Fund for the Performing Arts of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. With this gift, an endowed fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County was established to underwrite the Mainstage Series. The Fund will also support renovation of producing offices and construction of a new costume studio. The amount of $200,000 will be used for the renovation of and improvements to the Arnold Simonsen and Ronda Montminy Theatre Wing and the Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Theatre Wing. The remaining $300,000 will be used as an endowment fund to underwrite FST’s Winter Mainstage Series into perpetuity. Work has already begun on FST’s Costume Studio, which is housed in the Arnold Simonsen and Ronda Montminy Theatre Wing, with a projected completion in the spring of 2018. Renovations of FST’s producing offices in the Sudakoff Theatre Wing are scheduled to begin this upcoming fall.

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