Dale Ricardo Shields

Art Is Just A Great Mirror of Life – Dale Ricardo Shields
“Art is just a great mirror of life”
– Dale Ricardo Shields
An interview with Tomica Govan
Black Theatre, African American Voices
The vision of Dale Ricardo Shields is to preserve history about African American and Black actors and artists on the Facebook website Black Theatre / African American Voices on the Internet for everyone to learn from and enjoy. Who better for this mission than a man who has decades of experience in all aspects of theatre, movies, and production? Here is a transcription of a candid conversation he afforded us:

  

“If those who are known to us seem incongruous with themselves, it is only because of the superficiality of our own initial observation.” – Dale Ricardo Shields

DALE RICARDO SHIELDS
2022 LEGEND AWARD WINNER

 

Dale Ricardo Shields, Jeremy Wright, Connie Lawson-Davis, Jerry Jackson, Nicole Antoinette Smith. Kyle Bowser

Edan Noelle

Dennis Dalen

Angela Winborn, Edan Noelle,  Dale Ricardo Shields, Maha McCain

School of Theater graduate Dale Shields imparts wisdom to students during Black Alumni Reunion

Ohio University School of Theater Alumnus Dale Shields returned to campus as a part of OHIO’s recent Black Alumni Reunion.
Shields, who received the 2022 Ebony Bobcat Legend Award, holds an award-winning resume as an actor, director, educator, and activist.
Shields talked about his own experiences in show business with theater students and answered their questions during a ‘lunchbag’ event.
“One of the best things you can learn about acting is learning how to listen,” he shared with students.
Click the link to read the full story. 
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DALE SHIELDS COMES TO VISIT AND CONVERSATE WITH LYNNIE GODFREY

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/sfth2/2023/03/09/dale-shields-comes-to-visit-and-conversate-with-lynnie-godfrey?fbclid=IwAR3QDmLUc-kITLZ7ScN_km5b0kzRv8ZEhyKHNx-HRBQy0liS4X3TdIhxHSk 

* Enjoy the continuing conversation that LYNNIE GODFREY had with DALE RICARDO SHIELDS on the AFTERSHOW AFTERTHOUGHTS… Lovely conversation… Listen…! – https://www.facebook.com/lynnie.godfrey/videos/236418645377358

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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]