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“The State of Black Theatre It’s in need of long-withheld nourishment, and encouragement.”

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Director of Graduate Studies of the MFA in Acting program at Northwestern University where he holds the Inaugural W. Rockwell Wirtz Professorship. Stan has worked as a professional actor and vocal coach for over 30 years in the US, UK and Canada. His television credits include featured and recurring roles on NBC’s Homicide: Life in the Streets, In the Heat of the Night, and the critically acclaimed I’ll Fly Away. In film, Stan co-starred in Robby Benson’s Modern Love and Doug Liman’s Getting In opposite Calista Flockhart, Matthew Perry, Dave Chapelle, and Christine Baranski. In 2015 he played the lead in the short film The Bespoke Tailoring of Mr. Bellamy. The film won the prestigious Louisiana Film Prize and was shortlisted for the Academy Award ballot. Stan also won the Louisiana Film Prize Best Actor award for his work.

Stan joined the Guest Artist faculty at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. He is working on a voice book that will include submissions from noted voice professionals Cicely Berry, Arthur Lessac, Andrew Wade, Louis Colliani, and Richard Armstrong.

He also served as the voice consultant for the Food Network show Dave Does and as a language consultant on the feature film, “WAZ”, produced by Vertigo Films in London.

Thank you, Dale Shields. For saint-level patience and seasoned stage manager persistence. You’re so committed to building community and (with unfaltering consistency) supporting and uplifting the members of the community. Thank you, mighty Griot. You hold us up to the light and we are grateful. Please know that you’re loved, admired, and deeply respected.

You DA man! Love and light, Stan