Stacey Sargeant

Stacey Sargeant
EducationSyracuse University
OccupationActress

Stacey Sargeant is an American actress. She has been nominated for Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel awards and is the recipient of the South Korea Daegu International Musical Festival Best Supporting Actress Award and the New York Musical Theatre Festival Outstanding Individual Performance Award.

Early life

Sargeant was born to a Trinidadian father and Tobagonian mother and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She attended La Guardia Performing Arts High School.

Education

Sargeant earned a BFA in musical theatre from Syracuse University.

Career

Sargeant is mainly known for her roles in Netflix's The Forty-Year-Old Version and in National Geographic's Genius: Aretha. She played Dinah Washington in the latter.

In June 2025, it was announced that Sargeant would play Mrs. Who in a new musical production of A Wrinkle in Time at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage.

Film

Work Year
Chosen Family 2024
Reunion (short) 2023
The Snakes (short) 2021
The Forty-Year-Old Version 2020
Come Sunday 2018
Top Five 2014
Obvious Child 2014

Television

Work Year
The Equalizer 2024
FBI: Most Wanted 2022
Genius: Aretha Franklin 2021
Bull 2020-2021
Blue Bloods 2020
Elementary 2016
The Blacklist 2013-2014
Gossip Girl 2012
Glee 2011
Law & Order: SVU 2007
Guiding Light

Theatre

Work Year Venue Ref
A Wrinkle In Time 2025 Arena Stage
La Race 2022 McGinn/Cazale Theater, Women's Project Theater
Nantucket Sleigh Ride 2019 Lincoln Center Theater
Homos, Or Everyone in America 2016 Bank Street Theater
The Taming of the Shrew 2016 Shakespeare in the Park
Eclipsed 2015 Yale Repertory Theatre
Big Love 2015 Signature Theatre
Our Lady of Kibeho 2014 Signature Theatre
Rent 2009 Weston Playhouse
Legally Blonde 2008 National tour
Damn Yankees 2008 City Center
Kiss Me, Kate 2007 Repertory Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2006 Paper Mill Playhouse, McCarter Theatre
Two Gentlemen of Verona 2005 Delacorte Theatre
Purlie 2005 City Center
The Color Purple 2004 Alliance Theatre
Harlem Song 2002 Apollo Theatre
Little Ham 2001 Hudson Guild Theatre

References

  1. ↑ "Stacey Sargeant Finds Her Voice : Lincoln Center Theater Blog | Lincoln Center Theater". www.lct.org. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  2. ↑ "Nominations for the 2019 Drama Desk Awards Announced; Oklahoma!, Tootsie, Rags Parkland Lead the Pack | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  3. ↑ "Annette Bening, Bryan Cranston, Stephanie J. Block Among 2019 Drama League Award Nominees | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  4. ↑ "On The Carpet At The 2019 Lucille Lortel Awards - The Knockturnal". Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  5. 1 2 3 "Stacey Sargeant Biography | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com". www.broadway.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  6. ↑ "Summer Theater Lab, 2019: New York Theatre Workshop | Department of Theater". theater.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  7. 1 2 "Amber Gray, Taylor Iman Jones to Star in World Premiere of A Wrinkle in Time Musical | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  8. ↑ "Stacey Sargeant & More to Star in Bleu Beckford-Burrell's LA RACE at WP Theater". www.broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  9. ↑ "Stacey Sargeant Finds Her Voice : Lincoln Center Theater Blog | Lincoln Center Theater". www.lct.org. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  10. ↑ "Homos, or Everyone in America - TheaterMania.com". www.theatermania.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  11. ↑ "'The Taming of the Shrew': Theater Review". www.hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  12. ↑ "ECLIPSED, Yale Repertory Theatre, 2009". issuu. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  13. ↑ "Stacey Sargeant Will Join ECLIPSED at the Public Before Broadway Transfer". www.broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  14. ↑ "Off Broadway review: 'Big Love' – Culture Sauce". culturesauce.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  15. ↑ Brantley, Ben (2015-02-24). "Review: In 'Big Love,' Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  16. ↑ "Big Love Review: Soothing, Sexy, Shocking – New York Theater". newyorktheater.me. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  17. ↑ "Our lady of Kibeho" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-17.
  18. ↑ "Casting Announced for Katori Hall's Our Lady of Kibeho; Michael Greif Directs | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  19. ↑ "Weston Playhouse's Rent, with Evens, Cusick, Barbour, Figueroa, Bianco, Begins July 30 | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  20. ↑ "Road Trip! Legally Blonde Kicks Off Tour in Providence Sept. 21 | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  21. ↑ ""The Good Old Days": Damn Yankees Opens at City Center July 10 | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  22. ↑ "Kiss Me, Kate". variety.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  23. ↑ "Kiss Me, Kate | Repertory Theatre of St. Louis". www.repstl.org. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  24. ↑ Siegel, Naomi (2006-04-02). "THEATER REVIEW; A Seductive 'Midsummer'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  25. ↑ "Midsummer Night's Dream, with Lea DeLaria, Begins Paper Mill Playhouse Run April 19 | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  26. ↑ "Two Gentlemen of Verona Meet Again at Central Park's Delacorte | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  27. ↑ "Purlie". variety.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  28. ↑ "Alice Walker Novel Sings as The Color Purple Musical Starts World Premiere, Sept. 9 | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  29. ↑ "Harlem Song Will Run Through Nov. 17; Cast Recording Releases Nov. 26 | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  30. ↑ "Langston Hughes's Little Ham, a Harlem 'Jazzical,' Returns Off Bway Dec. 14 | Playbill". playbill.com. Retrieved 2025-06-17.