Chuck Cooper

AMAZING GRACE 

NEW YORK, NY – JULY 16: Chuck Cooper, Josh Young, and Erin Mackey during the Broadway Opening Night Performance Curtain Call for ‘Amazing Grace’ at the Nederlander Theatre on July 16, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images)

Prince of Broadway

 

Chuck Cooper and Hal Prince during the Broadway Opening Night performance Curtain Call for ‘The Prince of Broadway‘ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on August 24, 2017, in New York City.

NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 24: Chuck Cooper attends the Broadway Opening Night After Party for ‘Prince of Broadway‘ at Bryant Park Grill on August 24, 2017, in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images)

Chuck Cooper, Emily Skinner, Tony Yazbeck in PRINCE OF BROADWAY

Emily Skinner, Chuck Cooper, Karen Ziemba, Tony Yazbeck, Brandon Uranowitz, Bryonha Marie Parham, and Janet Dacal during the Broadway Opening Night performance Curtain Call for ‘The Prince of Broadway‘ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on August 24, 2017

Chuck Cooper and Hal Prince

 

TWO TRAINS RUNNING by August Wilson

532015_10151406784517210_82938238_n

 

563465_10151406785192210_1964149242_n525740_10151406785207210_1744834330_n580491_10151406784362210_1250744789_n

2012 © Michal Daniel

 

CHOIR BOY

 

1005714_591157420915871_1437779755_n

 

Much Ado About Nothing

(Shakespeare in the Park, Public Theater) 2019

Chuck Cooper and Erik Laray Harvey

 

Pages:

iforcolor

ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, 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. In 2020 He was also awarded The Actors Fund / Encore 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. degrees from Ohio University.