Setting Your Stage Founder, CEO
About Setting Your Stage
Setting Your Stage is a transformational performance training company blending elite conservatory technique, cultural competence, and soulful, strategic artistic development.
Founded by Juilliard-trained actor Stacey Sherrell Scott, SYS helps actors strengthen their craft, embody their story, and step boldly into the rooms their careers deserve.
Your Story. Your Stage.
SETTING YOUR STAGE PRESENTS
SYS Mock Auditions: Workshop + Mock Audition
Saturday, December 13 • Ripley Grier Studios
An immersive audition experience designed to strengthen your craft, deepen your artistic instincts, and prepare you for the rooms you're stepping into.
This exclusive, in-person intensive includes a free audition workshop, a premium mock audition + callback experience, and a live talkback with two professional auditors from Juilliard and Yale.
Only 10 actors will be admitted for the mock audition.
Registration is first come, first served.
Free Live Audition Workshop
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
Open to all actors • No cost
Start your day with a high-energy, practical training session led by founder and Juilliard-trained actor, Stacey Sherrell Scott.
In this workshop, you’ll learn:
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How to enter the room with presence and clarity
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How to Slate Well
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Tips and Tools for making grounded, bold choices
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Techniques to stay connected, responsive, and alive in your audition rooms
Mock Audition + Callback (Paid)
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Limited to 10 actors • $175
Step into a fully simulated audition room where you'll perform for two professional auditors – both conservatory-trained and active in the industry.
Your audition experience includes:
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Round 1: Your initial audition + redirection
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Callback Round: A deeper exploration of your choices and instincts
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Live adjustments to support truth, specificity, and presence
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Authentic casting-room pacing and structure
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Personalized feedback on what’s working and what to strengthen
This is a premium, six-hour audition immersion designed to give you insight, technique, and clarity you can bring into every future audition room.
Talkback + Q&A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Open to all audition participants
Close the day with a candid conversation led by Stacey and the auditors.
Ask questions, hear reflections on the work, and receive guidance on next steps for your craft and audition.
Location
Ripley Grier Studios
New York, NY
(Room details will be sent upon confirmation)
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.
