Niles Fitch

 

INTERVIEW with NILES FITCH

2011

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Fast-rising tween, Niles Fitch, is a 14-year-old Atlanta native who is following his passion for connecting with others through stage, print, commercials, television, film, and voice-overs.                          He loves to model, sing, dance, act, and make you laugh! 

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2011

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Shields: Miles,  how did you get started in Show business?

Niles: Strangers always asked my mom if I was a model and told my parents I should model, so my parents got me started in modeling at 3 and saw that I liked it.

Shields: Do you have a role model from the world of show business? Who is your role model?

Niles: I like Will Smith because he does everything.

Shields: You have started a remarkable career, already. What do you want to do as an adult?

Niles: I want to act, model, draw, and do voice-overs.

Shields: A theatrical career has so many lessons, what is the most important lesson you have learned backstage?

Niles: Never play around, it is a job.

Shields:  You are a great young man!  Continued success in all you do.  Great meeting you!

 

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

Website(s)

Iforcolor.org [Research]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Ricardo_Shields [Career]