Stacey Sargeant Will Replace Saycon Sengbloh in Eclipsed, Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Off-Broadway

Stacey Sargeant will take over for Saycon Sengbloh in the acclaimed off-Broadway production of Eclipsed from November 3. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, who will be transferring with the show to Broadway, the New York premiere officially opened on October 14 at the Public Theater's LuEsther Theater.

Sargeant will play Helena, a role she played in a previous production of Eclipsed at Yale Rep, for which Nyong’o was an understudy. Her off-Broadway credits include Big Love and Our Lady of Kibeho. Sargeant's TV and film resume includes The Blacklist, Gossip Girl and Glee.

Directed by Liesl Tommy and penned by Danai Gurira, Eclipsed is set amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War. The captive wives of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community—until the balance of their lives is upset by the arrival of a new girl. Drawing on reserves of wit and compassion, Eclipsed reveals distinct women who must discover their own means of survival in this deeply felt portrait of women finding and testing their own strength in a hostile world of horrors not of their own making.

The cast also includes Pascale Armand, Akosua Busia and Zainab Jah. No word yet on which cast members will be joining Nyong’o on Broadway.

The off-Broadway production will run through November 29.