November 12, 2024,

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Our lecture season will begin with the dynamic Rebecca Hopkins, Managing Director and COO of Florida Studio Theatre. She will share with us some history of this Sarasota institution and current programs and future plans for expansion. We are delighted to welcome her as our luncheon speaker. Her bio follows.

REBECCA HOPKINS serves as Managing Director for Florida Studio Theatre, and as such is the Chief Operations Officer. Mrs. Hopkins is responsible for oversight of FST’s overall Administration, including the Business Office, Development, Marketing, Box Office, Front of House, Cabaret Restaurant, budgeting and maintaining the overall quality of FST’s internal management functions.

She works in concert with the Artistic Director, in the creation and implementation of FST’s long-range plans. Mrs. Hopkins serves as FST’s liaison to other arts and theatre industry organizations. Nationally, Mrs. Hopkins serves on the Executive Committee for the  National New Play Network and had previously served on the Executive Committee for the League or Resident Theatres. Locally, she is on the Board of Directors for the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County. She has also served as a panelist for the Florida Arts Council.

In addition, Mrs. Hopkins developed FST’s Improvisation program and the Sarasota Improv Festival. Mrs. Hopkins is actively involved in new play development for the Cabaret having co-created over 20 musical revues including That’s Life, The Wanderers, The British Invasion, and Poems, Prayers and Promises. She is head-writer for the highly successful and critically-lauded Laughing Matters Series.

Previous to her employment with Florida Studio Theatre, Mrs. Hopkins served as the Audience Development Coordinator for the Largo Cultural Center and as a company member for the Austin Shakespeare Festival and the Zachary Scott Theatre.

Mrs. Hopkins received her education from Georgia State University and Eckerd College. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Gulf Coast Business Review’s Top Forty Under Forty. In 2012 she was the recipient of the Cultural Champion Award from the Arts and Cultural Alliance.