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AWARDS

 

 

Lifetime Achievement Award

at The 26th annual Big Easy Awards (2014)

Harrah – New Orleans, LA

Lifetime Achievement Award at the Big Easy Awards (2014)

Lifetime Achievement Award at the Big Easy Awards (2014) – Photos by Cheryl Gerber

The Big Easy Theater/Music Awards & Tribute to the Classical Arts. The 26th annual Big Easy Theater Awards recognized outstanding performances in musicals, dramas, and comedies over the past year. Nominees are scattered across 25 local theater companies. Categories include Best Drama, Entertainer of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement awards, Proceeds from the Big Easy Awards benefit the Foundation for Entertainment, Development, and Education which awards grants to support the future of theater in the Big Easy.

Adella’s awards and recognitions include fellowships and grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts (theater), Rockefeller Foundation. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, New Oilcans Video Access Center.     

The joint winner with Carol Sutton, of the 2017 NOLA Voice Talent Foundation Legends Award, part of the organization’s Hollywood South Awards®.  

NVT Legends Award

2017

Adella Gauthier (on left) and Carol Sutton, receive the NVT 2017 NVT Legends Award from Stephen James, founder, and CEO of The NOLA Voice Talent Foundation.

In July of 2014, Gautier was also selected for a Louisiana World Makers Artist grant.

During that time, she planned two documentary projects with the award. The first project will be an undisclosed biography film, and the other project was a series of interviews with the New Orleans Black Panther Party members arrested and incarcerated in 1970.

She also was honored by The Alliance for Community Theaters, Inc. (ACT I)  as Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Production, and the Robert D. Costley award for outstanding creative service to the Black community in New Orleans.

 

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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 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]