Biography

GARY STANFORD, JR. was born and raised in the Bay Area and has been involved with singing, dancing, and acting since childhood. He has been heavily involved in Bay Area musical theater and appeared in more than eighty musicals with various theater companies around the Bay. He started his own theater company, North California Arts Collective, in 2019, and is on the Board of Directors for Z-Space, Throckmorton Theater, ReAct Theater, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Woodside Community Theater, and Hillbarn Theater. In 2020 he became deeply involved in Diversity, Inclusion Equity education and mentoring and consults as a social justice professional.