ROBERT HOOKS Robert (Bobby Dean) Hooks by Dale Ricardo Shields American actor, producer, and activist. Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, he founded The Negro Ensemble Company. The Negro Ensemble Company is credited with the launch of the careers of many major Black artists of all disciplines, while …
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON Writer, Director, and Performer by Dale Ricardo Shields RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson is the director of the recent Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Jitney which garnered several awards including the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League, …
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, …
CHAPMAN ROBERTS By Dale Ricardo Shields In Celebration of the Creator of Black Stars on Broadway Maestro ~ Producer ~ Composer (Producers) Black Stars of The Great White Way – A Chapman Roberts Concept started out as a seed, a dream, an idea and manifested as a historical event at the legendary Carnegie …
