Artist Bio

(Bio as of January 2022)

Stan Brown (Voice and Language Coach) is the 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.