Chuck Cooper

 

Luciel Lortel award

Lucille Lortel award

Mr. Cooper is a Beinecke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama.

 

Awards

 

2020 Antonyo Award, Lifetime Achievement Award

NOMINATED 2019 AUDELCO Award, Featured Actor in a Musical Much Ado About Nothing Actor

{WON}  2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Featured Actor The Piano Lesson Actor
{WON}  2013 AUDELCO Award, Supporting Actor The Piano Lesson Actor
{WON}  2013 AUDELCO Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performance Choir Boy Actor
NOMINATED 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play The Piano Lesson Actor

 

 

 

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               CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

 

 

 

1996 – Tony Award, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, for The Life
1997 – Fany Award, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical
2002 – Distinguished Alumni Award, Ohio University, College Of Fine Arts
2003 – Outstanding Broadway Musical Performance Recognition, Hofstra University
2004 – Audelco Award Outstanding Performance by an actor in a musical for Caroline or Change
2005 – Beinecke Fellowship (teaching) Yale School Of Drama
2006 – NAACP Theatre Award Nomination, Best Supporting Male, Caroline or Change
2007 – San Diego Theater Critics Craig Noel Award, Outstanding Lead Performance for Two Trains Running (Old Globe)
2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival, Outstanding Individual Performance

 

*LINKS*

http://www.nowcasting.com/chuckcooper
http://www.chuckcooper.net

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(actor)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/nyregion/august-wilsons-jitney-at-the-two-river-theater-review.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/165201-James-Naughton-Will-Join-Chuck-Cooper-and-Michele-Lee-for-Cy-Coleman-Bringing-Jazz-to-Broadway#.T5nRT5UcyUw.facebook

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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]