~ IforColor ~
Created by
Dale Ricardo Shields
IforColor – Artistic-minded individuals of color who are accomplished and received little if any, recognition or media coverage in America.
IforColor brings historical key innovators to light for the knowledge and enjoyment of us all. The collection of profiles included on this website contains historical facts, not judgments.
We Celebrate!
About: Dale Ricardo Shields
~ Archivist, Director, Educator, and Historian ~
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 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.
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 taught and been a visiting artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester 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]
The vision of Dale Ricardo Shields is to preserve history about African Americans and artists of color on the Facebook website Black Theatre / African American Voices and African American Theatre Outlook Collective on the Internet for everyone to acknowledge, enjoy and learn about the past and present history.
Iforcolor
acknowledges the research talents of students from:
Randolph Macon College (Ashland Virginia), Denison University (Grandville, Ohio), and Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania)
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