About

Stacey Sargeant is a Brooklyn-born actor, director, and writer of Trinidad & Tobago parentage.

She recently wrote and directed her narrative debut, 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 within everyday encounters.

As an actor, Stacey will next appear opposite Claire Danes in A24's upcoming Hulu series The Spot. Her television credits include a recurring role on BMF and portraying legendary jazz singer Dinah Washington in Genius: Aretha. Her film credits include Netflix's Come Sunday and The Forty-Year-Old Version, as well as Chosen Family.

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.

Stacey is a graduate of LaGuardia High School and Syracuse University, where she earned a BFA in Musical Theater. She is currently developing original film and television projects that blend humor, emotional truth, and intimate character-driven storytelling, continuing her commitment to creating nuanced, deeply human stories both in front of and behind the camera.