Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is pleased to announce that two new staff members have joined the theatre’s expanding team. Alex Price is FST’s new Production Manager, taking over responsibilities from the theatre’s previous Director of Production, Bruce Price, who worked at FST for 20 years. Jay Lockaby has joined FST’s Development department as Major Gifts Officer. These new additions come at an exciting time in FST’s history, with a full 2022-2023 Winter Season opening this week, and the theatre’s largest expansion project—The Mulva Arts Plaza, a twelve-story building that will enable FST to meet its growing needs. Alex Price joined the FST team in 2021 as Associate Production Manager under the tutelage of the theatre’s previous Director of Production, Bruce Price. Before moving to Sarasota, Price served as the Managing Artistic Director of The Round Barn Theatre in Indiana, where he directed, set-designed, and oversaw the technical aspects of multiple productions, including the World Premiere of When Calls The Heart The Musical. He is also the Founding Artistic Director of The 574 Theatre Company, where he directed and produced Into the Woods – A Deaf Theatre Project, which was performed simultaneously in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. This was the first production of Into the Woods to be performed in ASL. Jay Lockaby, who started working as Major Gifts Officer at Sarasota’s Contemporary Theatre in mid-September, has lived in the Sarasota-Manatee area since 2003. Before joining FST’s staff, he worked as a fundraising consultant with Ghiorsi & Sorrenti, Inc., guiding health care organizations and other non-profit organizations in implementing successful capital campaigns. For fourteen years, Lockaby worked with the Cancer Support Community (CSC), spending seven years as President & CEO of a successful local chapter and seven years as Senior Vice President for Affiliate Relations and Strategic Growth at the organization’s international headquarters in Washington, D.C.