Stan Strickland, singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor, has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. He has performed with the Boston Pops, the Village People, Aretha Franklin, and jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann, and opened for Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and The Bare Naked Ladies. Stan is an associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music and executive co-director of Express Yourself, a multi-cultural arts agency that serves mentally ill youth through the Department of Mental Health. His one-man show Coming Up for Air, An Auto-Jazzography received the prestigious Eliot Norton Award in theater for best solo performance.