multi-hyphenate
Stacey Sargeant is a Brooklyn-born actor, writer, and director of Trinidad & Tobago parentage. She makes her directorial and writing debut with Stand Clear ’ the Closing Doors, which world-premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival and will have its West Coast premiere at Dances With Films. Her work centers on intimate, character-driven storytelling grounded in lived experience and focused on expanding the narrative complexity of Black women on screen.
As an actor, Stacey recurs in A24’s upcoming Hulu series The Spot, led by Claire Danes. She has appeared in the Netflix features Come Sunday and The Forty-Year-Old Version, as well as Heather Graham’s Chosen Family. On television, she recurs on Starz’s BMF and appears in Nat Geo’s Genius: Aretha, portraying legendary jazz singer Dinah Washington.
A celebrated stage performer, Stacey has received 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. She has also been honored by the Daegu International Musical Festival and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Her stage work includes 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.
Stacey is a graduate of LaGuardia High School and Syracuse University, where she earned a BFA in Musical Theater.