Stacey Tirro is a speaker, author, educator, coach, and the woman behind The Geriatric Gymnast. Leading by example, she defies the conventional “wisdom” around aging and explores reinvention, courage, resilience, and what happens when we give ourselves permission to become beginners again.

Through humor, storytelling, and her experience as an adult gymnast, Stacey shares what it means to expand in midlife—and invites audiences to do the same.

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Stacey in the Media

August 1, 2024: The Atlantic, featured in The ‘Grandma Gymnast’ Is Here To Stay by Kelly Jones

August 2023: The Unsealed, This Is How I Hope To Help by Lauren Brill

October 5, 2020: Lohud.com, In Spring Valley, an ally on race lends her platform to the pain

October 5, 2020: Lohud.com, Empty stages, open minds: Creating theater in the age of COVID-19

September 14, 2020: Wagmag.com, Serving the Hudson Valley’s Disabled

June 10, 2015: American Theatre Magazine, Dancing on the Edge with Spring Valley High’s Thespian Troupe 721 by Jaime Green

March 13, 2015: Spring Valley, it’s the year for ‘West Side Story’ by Peter D. Kramer

Talking to Stacey

September 2026: Lights Up: The High School Theater Podcast Episode 15 with Pete Kramer

August 2026: YouTube, The Adult Gymnastics Movement podcast Episode 10 with Hugh Smith and Jenny Woudenberg

August 2023: Theaterfolk Podcast, These Kids Are Worth It: A Drama Program Success Story Episode 140, by Lindsay Price

Another piece of Stacey’s work

Changed for the Better
A series of conversations with former students discussing the power of arts in education to transform lives.

Visit Changed for the Better

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