multi-hyphenate
Stacey Sargeant is a Brooklyn-born actor, writer, and director of Trinidad & Tobago parentage whose work spans television, film, 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 world-premiered at the Tribeca Festival and was subsequently selected for Dances With Films LA and deadCenter Film Festival. Grounded in lived experience, her work explores the humor, tension, and humanity found in everyday encounters.
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As an actor, Stacey will next appear in A24's upcoming Hulu series The Spot, starring Claire Danes. Her television credits include a recurring role on BMF and portraying legendary jazz singer Dinah Washington in National Geographic's Genius: Aretha. Her film credits include Netflix's Come Sunday and The Forty-Year-Old Version, as well as Chosen Family.
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A celebrated stage performer, Stacey 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. Her theater credits include Mrs. Who in Arena Stage's world-premiere musical A Wrinkle in Time and Lady in Blue in the Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
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Stacey is a graduate of LaGuardia High School and Syracuse University, where she earned a BFA in Musical Theater. Building on a career spent bringing other writers' stories to life, she is now developing original film and television projects rooted in the same character-driven storytelling that has defined her work as a performer.