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.
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
August 2026: YouTube, The Adult Gymnastics Movement podcast, Episode 10
August 2023: Theaterfolk Podcast, These Kids Are Worth It: A Drama Program Success Story Episode 140, by Lindsay Price
Stacey is available to discuss:
- Aging differently
- Reinvention and the second act
- The courage to become a beginner
- Overcoming fear and self-imposed limitations
- What gymnastics can teach us about life
- Why getting older doesn’t have to mean getting smaller
Photos
Book Signing for What Ronnie Sue Knew
2023 ACOR Arts Educator recipient
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