Chuck Cooper
Performance credits
Let ‘Em Eat Cake
concert staging
MasterVoices
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
November 21, 2019
Matthew Fulton
Road Show
concert staging
City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert
New York City Center Mainstage Theater
New York, NY
July 24 – 27, 2019
performer
Much Ado About Nothing
The Public Theater
Delacorte Theatre
New York, NY
May 21 – June 23, 2019
Leonato
Choir Boy
Manhattan Theatre Club
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
New York, NY
December 12, 2018 –
Me and My Girl
City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert
New York City Center Mainstage Theater
New York, NY
May 7 – 13, 2018
Prince of Broadway
Manhattan Theatre Club, Gorgeous Entertainment
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
New York, NY
August 3 – October 29, 2017
The Cherry Orchard
Roundabout Theatre Company
American Airlines Theatre
New York, NY
September 15 – November 27, 2016
Annie Get Your Gun
concert staging
New York City Center
New York City Center Mainstage Theater
New York, NY
October 27, 2015
Amazing Grace
Nederlander Theatre
New York, NY
June 25 – October 25, 2015
Amazing Grace
Bank of America Theatre
Chicago, IL
October 19 – November 2, 2014
Act One
Lincoln Center Theater
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
New York, NY
March 20 – June 15, 2014
Romeo and Juliet
Richard Rodgers Theatre
New York, NY
August 24 – December 8, 2013
Choir Boy
Manhattan Theatre Club
The Studio at Stage II
New York, NY
June 18 – August 4, 2013
Two Trains Running
Two River Theater Company
Two River Theater Company Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater
Red Bank, NJ
February 2 – March 3, 2013
The Piano Lesson
Signature Theatre Company
The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center
New York, NY
January 29 – March 10, 2013
In This House
Two River Theater Company
Two River Theater Company Marion Huber Theater
Red Bank, NJ
March 4 – April 8, 2012
Their Eyes Were Watching God
staged reading
The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC
New York City, NY
February 29 – March 1, 2012
Jitney
Two River Theater Company
Two River Theater Company Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater
Red Bank, NJ
January 31 – February 19, 2012
All My Sons
Intiman Theatre
Intiman Playhouse
Seattle, WA
March 18 – April 17, 2011
Lost in the Stars
City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert
New York City Center Mainstage Theater
New York, NY
February 3 – 6, 2011
Twelfth Night or What You Will
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sidney Harman Hall
Washington, DC
August 19 – September 5, 2010
On the Levee
World premiere
LCT3
The Duke on 42nd Street
New York, NY
June 14 – July 10, 2010
Finian’s Rainbow
St. James Theatre
New York, NY
October 8, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Hamlet
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Carter Barron Amphitheatre
Washington, DC
May 22 – June 1, 2008
Being Alive: A New Musical Celebration
Philadelphia Theatre Company
Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Philadelphia, PA
October 24 – December 2, 2007
Two Trains Running
The Old Globe
The Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
April 21 – May 27, 2007
Mixed Company
workshop production
New York Stage and Film
Martel Theatre at the Vogelstein Center
Poughkeepsie, NY
July 28 – 29, 2006
dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory
Yale Repertory Theatre
New Theater
New Haven, CT
February 17 – March 18, 2006
Lennon
Broadhurst Theatre
New York, NY
July 7 – September 24, 2005
Hair
concert staging
The Actors Fund
New Amsterdam Theatre
New York, NY
September 20, 2004
Caroline, or Change
The Public Theater
Eugene O’Neill Theatre
New York, NY
April 13 – August 29, 2004
Caroline, or Change
The Public Theater
Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater
New York, NY
November 30, 2003 – February 1, 2004
Chicago
Richard Rodgers Theatre
New York, NY
Shubert Theatre
New York, NY
Ambassador Theatre
New York, NY
November 14, 1996 –
Marco Polo Sings a Solo
Signature Theatre Company
Peter Norton Space
New York, NY
September 15 – October 25, 1998
St. Louis Woman
City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert
New York City Center Mainstage Theater
New York, NY
1998
The Life
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
New York, NY
April 26, 1997 – June 7, 1998
The Doctor is Out
The Old Globe
The Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
September 10 – October 21, 1995
Police Boys
Playwrights Horizons New Theater Wing
Playwrights Horizons Wilder Theater
New York, NY
April 15 – May 28, 1995
Capt. Jabali Abdul LaRouche
Police Boys
Playwrights Horizons New Theater Wing
Playwrights Horizons Studio Theater
New York, NY
June 22 – July 1994
Avenue X
Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
New York, NY
February 28 – April 3, 1994
Four Short Operas, Break
Playwrights Horizons New Theater Wing
Playwrights Horizons Studio Theater
New York, NY
December 11 – 22, 1991
in Eulogy For Mister Hamm
in Agnes
in Lucky Nurse
Colored People’s Time
World premiere
Negro Ensemble Company
Cherry Lane Theatre
New York, NY
March 29 – 1982
Awards
2014
Nomination:
Drama Desk Award: Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Choir Boy — Headmaster Marrow
2013
Winner:
Lortel Award: Outstanding Featured Actor
The Piano Lesson — Wining Boy
nomination:
Drama Desk Award: Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
The Piano Lesson — Wining Boy
1997
Winner:
Tony Award: Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
The Life — performer
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ARCHIVIST, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Shields is a professor of theatre, director, and actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional).
Research Accomplishments:
The 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, and the winner of the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award. On the web, he is the archivist and historian of Iforcolor.org and Black Theatre/African American Voices [Facebook] (theatre, music, and art). He has taught classes and workshops at SUNY Potsdam, Susquehanna University, Denison University, Randolph-Macon College, Macalester College, The College of Wooster, Ohio University, Wayne State University, and the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival).
Education
B.F.A. and M.F.A. degree from Ohio University.
