Lynnie Godfrey

PROFESSIONAL WORK

  • Eubie! Musical Revue, Ambassador Theatre (Broadway debut)
  • Shuffle Along – Theatre-Off-Park
  • ’39 (Pre-Broadway Production)
  • Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Pennsylvania Stage Company, Woodstock Playhouse, Theatre-by-the-Sea
  • The Dispute, Shakespeare Theatre Company
  • Gem of the Ocean – Aunt Esther, Arena Stage
  • Millennium 7 – Naomi Pilgrim, 78th Street Theatre Lab
  • Wild Christmas Binge – Ghost, Arena Stage
  • Night Life, Musical Revue, West Beth Theatre
  • L’histoire Du Soldat, Red Cross Girl, Bay Street Theatre
  • A, My Name is Alice, Lynnie, American Place Theatre (Original Cast)
  • No Place to Be Somebody, Cora Mae Beasley, Matrix Theatre
  • Ragtime Blues, Belle, Amas Repertory Theatre
  • Sweet Charity, Helene, Starlight Theatre
  • Damn Yankees, Lola, Hartford Stage Company
  • Ain’t Misbehavin,’ Nell/Armelia, Regional Tour
  • Juice Problem, Vicky, O’Neill Playwright’s Conference
  • Absurdities, Josephine Baker, European Tour
  • The Nature & Purpose of the Universe, Elaine, Direct Theatre, Theatre for a New City
  • 1,000 Years of Jazz, Musical Revue, LA Music Theatre, National Tour
  • If This Ain’t It, Musical Revue, WPA Theatre

  • Eubie (Showtime)
  • Memories of Eubie (PBS)

  • Women Without Implants (Independent)

  • Original Broadway Cast Album of EUBIE !! (Warner Bros.)
  • Lynnie Godfrey: Doin’ It Her Way (CD)[30]
  • Spending the Holidays with Lynnie Godfrey (CD)[31]
  • Ladies of Song: A Tribute to Ethel Waters, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn (Theatre/Cabaret)

  • To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Theatre-Off Park
  • Waves of America, Empire State Institute of Performing Arts
  • Unentitled, ArtsQuest, Bethlehem PA
  • Lois’s Wedding, Arts Quest, Bethlehem, PA
  • Red Blood of War and Legacy, Bethlehem, PA
  • Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed, New York Theatre Workshop, University of Delaware, Theatre Institute at Sage, Troy, NY.

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ARCHIVIST and HISTORIAN
Dale Shields is a professor of theatre, director, and actor (Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway and Regional).
Research Accomplishments:
The 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, and the winner of the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award. On the web, he is the archivist and historian of Iforcolor.org and Black Theatre/African American Voices [Facebook] (theatre, music, and art). He has taught classes and workshops at Susquehanna University, Denison University, Randolph-Macon College, Macalester College, The College of Wooster, Ohio University, Wayne State University, The University of Akron and the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (NYSF).

Education
B.F.A. and M.F.A. degree from Ohio University.

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