multi-hyphenate
Stacey Sargeant is a Brooklyn-born actor, writer, and director of Trinidad and Tobago parentage whose work spans film, television, and theater.
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She recently made her narrative directorial debut with Stand Clear ’ the Closing Doors, a short film inspired by a true event that premiered at the Tribeca Festival. The film went on to screen at Dances With Films: LA, deadCenter Film Festival, and Urbanworld, where it won Best Narrative Short (US). Stacey also received Best Lead Actress honors at the Conch Shell International Film Festival, and the film won Best Screenplay at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival. Rooted in lived experience, her work explores the humor, tension, and humanity of everyday encounters, with a particular interest in the complexities of human connection and the reclamation of space and self.
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As an actor, Stacey will next appear opposite Claire Danes in A24’s upcoming Hulu series The Spot. Her screen credits include Netflix’s Come Sunday and The Forty-Year-Old Version, as well as Chosen Family. Onstage, she earned Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Award nominations for her performance in the New York Times Critics’ Pick Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future. Her theater credits include Mrs. Who in Arena Stage’s world-premiere musical A Wrinkle in Time and Lady in Blue in the seven-time Tony-nominated Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
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A graduate of LaGuardia High School and Syracuse University, where she earned a BFA in Musical Theater, Stacey is developing original film and television projects that draw on her experiences as a performer and storyteller. Her work reflects a commitment to nuanced, deeply human stories that find humor and emotional truth in the complexity of everyday life, both in front of and behind the camera.