Coming Up For Air-An AutoJAZZography is playing at the Central Square Theatre in Cambridge, MA from July 24th through August 9th!Click here for details!
After Stan’s run in Cambridge, MA, he’s off to Scotland to perform "Coming Up For Air" at the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival during the month of August!
Click here for details on Stan's show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008!
Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Erlich, Webster Lewis and Brute Force. Stan has performed with jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann, Danilo Perez, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw. Love & Beauty, Stan's new jazz vocal CD, featuring new arrangements of great jazz classics as well as original material, was released by Hawkline Records in 2005.
Stan has opened for Jazz greats Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, and for Barenaked Ladies. He toured South Africa with The Village People, and was a featured soloist with Take Six and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall.
Stan received the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for his one-man play Coming Up for Air.
Other acting stints include the leading roles in the Boston Art Group's production of Harlem Renaissance, NotheasternUniversity's production of Crossing John, and Dr. Sax in a production of Jon Lipsky's play about Jack Kerouac, Maggie's Riff, produced by the Vineyard Playhouse.
Stan has performed and collaborated with over a dozen choreographers including Alvin Ailey, Jose Limon, and Bill T. Jones.
Stan is profiled/featured, (along with Blair Underwood and Lamar Burton), in a new film documentary that was filmed this past spring, entitled Black Man Up.
He has performed at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of Academy Award winning documentary Born into Brothels and at three exclusive fashion/fragrance events for fashion icon Donna Karan
Stan has a M.A. degree from Lesley College in Expressive Arts Therapy where he is an adjunct professor. He also teaches at Berklee College of Music, Tufts University and Longy School of Music.
Stan is Co-Executive Director of Express Yourself, a multidisciplinary team of professional artists, working in partnership with adolescents in public mental health residential facilities to produce multimedia performances that celebrate the restorative powers of serious art making.
Some words from Stan:
"Every one of us wants a life full of love and beauty. This innate longing for the best that life has to offer has inspired incredible works of art and countless acts of compassion and heroism. But far too often our need for love and connection becomes distorted and turns into jealousy or bigotry. Our desire for beauty can turn into greed or selfishness. If we could see ourselves and the world around us as they truly are, we would discover love and beauty with every breath and step we take. May this music remind us of who we are."
Stan
P.S. Don't give up on possibility
Watch for Stan's upcoming appearances in 2008, coming soon!
