BELFAST — Midcoast Actors' Studio has received a $4,000 grant from the Maine Theater Fund, a branch of the Maine Community Foundation, for its 2016 season. The grant will help fund many productions MAS is planning, including, A Lie of the Mind, by Sam Shepard, in March, Circle Mirror Transformation, by Annie Baker, in May, the MAS workshop series of Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill in August, Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw, in September, and 4,000 Miles, by Amy Herzog, in November. Producing Artistic Director Jason Bannister is grateful to the Maine Theater Fund.

"The Maine Theater Fund has supported Midcoast Actors' Studio in the past and we are please that they have decided to help fund our work again," Bannister said, in a publicity release. "2016 will be our fifth year and we are excited about the season we have planned of live theater on the Midcoast of Maine."

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