Setting Your Stage Founder, CEO
Stacey Sherrell Scott is a Juilliard-trained actor, educator, and founder of Setting Your Stage, a performance coaching and creative education company that helps artists strengthen their craft, confidence, and community. A lifelong lover of Shakespeare, Stacey is passionate about demystifying classical text — revealing the clarity, rhythm, and emotional truth that make his work timeless and deeply human.
Through Setting Your Stage, Stacey facilitates transformative spaces where people can learn, explore, and connect — blending classical technique, cultural awareness, and soulful artistry. She believes that everyone deserves to find their voice and take their stage, whether in performance, storytelling, or everyday life.
Beyond SYS, Stacey is a working actress, and serves as the Director of Education at The Classical Theatre of Harlem, designing theatre residencies that nurture creativity and connection across New York City. She also collaborates with Columbia University’s Center for Justice, using theatre as a tool for healing and social transformation.
Grounded in excellence, authenticity, and joy, Stacey’s work continues to build community through art — empowering others to step forward, speak boldly, and bring their stories to life.
Featuring Guest Artist - Bobbin Ramsey
Bobbin Ramsey is an artist who explores the strange, the magical, and the absurd to illuminate the realities of our lives. Through camp, spectacle, and impossibility, her work invites audiences to confront pain and fear from a place of imagination—transforming discomfort into communal healing, empathy, and wonder. She believes theater is uniquely suited to awaken what’s unfamiliar and reveal our shared resilience and capacity for hope. Her work—often described as bold, political, and magical—spans devised and new plays as well as radical interpretations of classics.
Ramsey has directed or developed productions at Ensemble Studio Theater, the Atlantic Acting School, Yale School of Drama, and Washington Ensemble Theater, among others. A dedicated teaching artist, she has taught and directed at institutions including Yale College, Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Washington. She is an alumna of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, an SDC Associate Member, and a recipient of multiple directing awards and fellowships.
Setting Your Stage Founder, CEO
Stacey Sherrell Scott is a Juilliard-trained actor, educator, and founder of Setting Your Stage, a performance coaching and creative education company that helps artists strengthen their craft, confidence, and community. A lifelong lover of Shakespeare, Stacey is passionate about demystifying classical text — revealing the clarity, rhythm, and emotional truth that make his work timeless and deeply human.
Through Setting Your Stage, Stacey facilitates transformative spaces where people can learn, explore, and connect — blending classical technique, cultural awareness, and soulful artistry. She believes that everyone deserves to find their voice and take their stage, whether in performance, storytelling, or everyday life.
Beyond SYS, Stacey is a working actress, and serves as the Director of Education at The Classical Theatre of Harlem, designing theatre residencies that nurture creativity and connection across New York City. She also collaborates with Columbia University’s Center for Justice, using theatre as a tool for healing and social transformation.
Grounded in excellence, authenticity, and joy, Stacey’s work continues to build community through art — empowering others to step forward, speak boldly, and bring their stories to life.
Featuring Guest Artist - Bobbin Ramsey
Bobbin Ramsey is an artist who explores the strange, the magical, and the absurd to illuminate the realities of our lives. Through camp, spectacle, and impossibility, her work invites audiences to confront pain and fear from a place of imagination—transforming discomfort into communal healing, empathy, and wonder. She believes theater is uniquely suited to awaken what’s unfamiliar and reveal our shared resilience and capacity for hope. Her work—often described as bold, political, and magical—spans devised and new plays as well as radical interpretations of classics.
Ramsey has directed or developed productions at Ensemble Studio Theater, the Atlantic Acting School, Yale School of Drama, and Washington Ensemble Theater, among others. A dedicated teaching artist, she has taught and directed at institutions including Yale College, Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Washington. She is an alumna of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, an SDC Associate Member, and a recipient of multiple directing awards and fellowships.
