Dale Ricardo Shields

By iforcolor in Activist, Actor, Dale Ricardo Shields, Director, Educator, History, Professor
February 8, 2024

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OHIO UNIVERSITY

SOUTH
BRONX COMMUNITY THEATRE

PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZON

The Public Theatre
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
The Public Theatre (Andre’DeShields)

DENISON UNIVERSITY

RANDOLPH-MACON
COLLEGE

SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY

DENISON UNIVERSITY

Pages:

A Raisin In The Sun, A Soldier's Play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Allyson Tucker Mitchell, Andre De Shields, Angela Winborn, Anna Marie Horsford, Anne Yuan, Another World, Autumn Stiles, Bebe Neuwirth, Before It Hits Home, Bill Cosby, Bill Ransom, Brandon Hummons, Brandt Gentry, Brian Evaret Chandler, Brian Stokes Mitchell, CCH Pounder, Chuck Cooper, Claude Shields, Cleveland Play House, Cleveland School of the Arts, Connie Lawson-Davis, Crowns, Dale Ricardo Shields, Dale Shields, Daniel Fiorentini, Darlene Darby Baldwin., Denison University, Dennis Dalen, Dorothy Silver, Dr. Roger Jelliffe, Driving Miss Daisy, Ed Blunt, Edan Noelle, Erich McMillan-McCall, Fame, Fannie Shields, Fires in The Mirror, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf, Godspell, Golden Boy, Grace Miller, Guiding Light, Home, I, If you are Seeing This It's Too Late. How do you Slam a Revolving Door - {A Word Jam}., ITV, Jaguar Turtle, Jaime Weinfeld, Jamila Atkinson, Jasmine KP, Jeremy Wright, Jerry Jackson, Jimmie D. Woody, Johnny Cash, Justine Nape, Karamu House, Keith Mullings Jr, Keith ScootDawg Nolen, Kendra Petite, Khari Riley, KiKi Shepard, Lafayette Robinson, Laughter on the Twenty Third Floor, LaZette McCants, Lennie Johnson III, Leslie Varnick, Lincoln Center (State Theatre), Macalester College, Maha McCain, Maha McClain, Man of La Mancha, Mariama Whyte, Marilyn Bianchi, Mark Anthony Arceño, Mark Horning, Marlaine Browning, Melvinia Shields, Mindbuilders, Moses Shields, Myky Tran, Najee Rollins, New Federal Theatre, Nicole Antoinette Smith. Kyle Bowser, Nina Domingue Glover, Of Mice and Men, Ohio University, Ossie Davis, Oz Scott, Peyton Dean, Phi Kappa Phi, Phylicia Rashad, Pia Long, Playwrights Horizons, Project1Voice, Quaanzale Thompson, Quartermaine's Terms, Ragtime, Randolph-Macon College, Reggie Kelly, Rosanne Cash, Ruby Dee, Rumors, Same Time Next Year, Sara Blike, Sarah Shields, Saturday Night Live, Scott Holmes, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Shields Brothers, Singers, Something Wanted, South Bronx Community Action Theatre, Special Needs, St. Clements, Stephen Sondheim, Susquehanna University, The Amen Corner, The American Folk Theatre, The Beck Center for the Arts, The Brownsville Raid, The Center for Families and Children, The Cleveland Playhouse, The College of Wooster, The Colored Museum, The Cosby Show, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Henry Street Settlement House (New Federal Theatre), The Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival), The Kennedy Center, The Me Nobody Knows, The Negro Ensemble Company, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Penumbra Theatre, The University of Akron, The Weathervane Playhouse, The Weathervane Theatre, Thomas Schmitz, Three Ways Home, Tom O'Horgan, Tony Liu, Too Sing America, Top Dog/Underdog, Trouble in Mind, Upward Bound, Vivian Distin, Wayne State University, William Bryant Shields Sr., Wizzy Dorceus, Xavier Jesus Vargas, Youngstown Early Intervention Program

iforcolor

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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