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]
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Antone Pagán
Antone Pagán Actor, Director, Producer, and Writer by Dale Ricardo Shields Antone Pagán was raised in Harlem, New York. He has been a member of the famed Actors Studio since the late 1980s and was recently appointed to the studio’s membership committee. He listed among his Actors Studio mentors, Paul Calderon, Frank Corsaro, Lee Grant, …
Leigh Whipper
Leigh Whipper By Dale Shields Leigh Whipper the first Black member of the Actors’ Equity Association (1913) * Born in (1876) Charleston, South Carolina, died (1975) New York City, New York. “Although a strong presence in the (still extant) Oscar Micheaux drama Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), gaunt-looking African-American performer Leigh Whipper had …
The Mammy Archetype: A Black Maiden Syndrome
Media Depictions of the Mammy Archetype by Dale Ricardo Shields The Mammy archetype is one of the most notable Black stereotypes and caricatures which exist in American culture. “In reality, the pancake mix was the creation of two White men in Missouri, and they named it after a character in a minstrel song, not an …
Hattie McDaniel – (Actress)
HATTIE McDANIEL 1895 – 1952 ______________________________________ By Dale Ricardo Shields All Rights Reserved – iforcolor.org “Why should I complain about making seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid? If I didn’t, I’d be making seven dollars a week actually being one” ~*~ [ We only need 99 more signatures to reach the next goal …
Roy Hamilton – Singer
Roy Hamilton The Golden Boy of Song by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS ~*****~ April 16, 1929, Leesburg, Georgia – July 20, 1969 New Rochelle, New York Roy Hamilton, during his illustrious 15-year singing career, was known by many nicknames: Mr. Rock and Soul, The Gentle Giant, and, most notably, The Golden Boy …