Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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Douglas Turner Ward, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Woodie King

 

Brandon Dirden, Douglas Turner Ward, Woodie King Jr., Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Weldon Charles. 

Stephen McKinley Henderson, Anthony Chisholm, Roscoe Orman, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

The RSH Fine Arts Center is a state-of-the-art training center that houses an art studio, black box theatre, and a film/media production computer lab. Annual art shows, concerts, and theater productions are held to showcase its student’s work in the areas of art, music, and theatre.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Center

Global Concepts recently held the grand opening for its Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Center, a former church just a short walk away from the Lackawanna institution’s high school building. The Fine Arts Center was renovated for $1 million into a mixture of classrooms, studios, rehearsal space, and a theater.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a Lackawanna native, is a prominent actor and playwright and contributed memorabilia which now hangs on the Fine Arts Center’s walls. The school chose to name the facility after him as an inspiration to its students.

The facility will open for classes at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year and house all of the school’s arts programs, from music to painting to theater.

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OWN: Oprah Winfrey NETWORK announced Tony Award winner and Emmy/Golden Globe Awards nominee Ruben Santiago-Hudson (“The Quad,” “Billions“) will play the recurring role of Dr. Bree, in its upcoming lyrical drama David Makes Man.

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“Ruben Santiago-Hudson is a Tony Award-winning actor, an accomplished writer/director with three Obie awards. In addition to an Emmy and Golden Globe nomination, he received numerous accolades for his screenplay of HBO’s Lackawanna Blues. Most recently he received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director Of A Play for his Tony Award-winning revival of August Wilson’s JITNEY. Which also garnered Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and NY Drama Critic Circle awards along with 6 Tony Award nominations. Ruben received the 2013 Lucille Lortel and Obie Award for Best Direction of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and in 2016 an Obie Award for Special Citations: Collaboration of the play Skeleton Crew with playwright Dominique Morriseau. Ruben recently starred in the BET series The Quad and made his television directorial debut. He recurs in Showtime’s hit series Billions opposite Damian Lewis and also on OWN’s new David Makes Man alongside Phylicia Rashad.”Ruben is one of the most accomplished and heralded purveyors of the work of August Wilson.“

 


Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with The Public Theater’s OTHELLO  

 

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2019 Women’s Jazz Festival WEEK 2: A Salute to Women in Bebop curated by Obie Award-winning composer Diedre L. Murray. The evening is inspired by the upcoming play OO-BLA-DEE !
Listen to the play’s creator Regina Taylor and director, Ruben Santiago-Hudson who describes the basis for when women were entering the male-dominated field of Jazz in the 1940s.
Get your tickets for this amazing evening of music with Gabrielle Murphy (alto saxophone and flute), Brandon McCune (piano), Mimi Jones (bass), and Eli Fountain (percussion and drums): https://bit.ly/2XxheaU
OO-BLA-DEE at Two River Theater
By Regina Taylor
Original Music by Diedre L. Murray
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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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]