Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Stacey Sacks recently completed almost 3 years as Head of Acting at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and just a month ago received the position of Professor of Acting there. Sacks' PhD in Performative and Media Based Practices at SKH is entitled This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything (2020).

Interested in trans-generational and intra-cultural haunting, Sacks' artistic research frequently experiments with auto-ethnography and productive discomfort in multi-modal ways, attempting to discover sharper ways of giving attention, making safe space for generative failure. Via a series of inter-disciplinary corporeal and material experiments, the research at root asks questions around how to mobilize Sacks' own positionality as a privileged body in the anti-colonial conversation. The ongoing research explores if and how clowning generates a kind of ethico-poesis, particularly examining how satire and parody might destabilize and rethink issues relating to power, race, privilege and identity. Or not. 

A professsional actor/writer/pedagogue/director/researcher/clown, Sacks has taught and supervised at BA, MA and PhD levels in South Africa, Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and the USA; was a Fulbright Scholar in Connecticut, USA (2021-2022); presented The Walls Have Tongues or... at the Research Pavilion (Venice Biennale, 2017); published their PhD 'thesis' SQUIRM (2020), and is co-author of The Clown Manifesto published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama (2015).