Dyane Harvey-Salaam

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Dyane has choreographed for the theatre community Love’s Fire for The Acting Company, Yerma, and The African Company Presents Richard the Third (director Reggie Montgomery) for New York University’s Graduate Acting Program and Ramapo College (director Shona Tucker), Lavender Lizards, Lilac Landmines, Layla’s Dream for the University of Florida at Gainesville and at the Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (writer Ntozake Shange- director Dr. Mikell Pinkney), Great Men of Gospel for the New Federal Theatre (director/writer Elizabeth Van Dyke), Harriet Returns for The Acting Company (director Shona Tucker) and for the Education Department of the McCarter Theatre, a young peoples’ audience-interactive play with music and movement Sunjata Kamaleyna (writer/director Chris Parks) highlighting the history of the Mali Empire. She was also an original cast member of the Negro Ensemble Company’s production of The Great MacDaddy directed by Douglass Turner Ward and choreographed by Dianne McIntyre. She choreographed Samm Art William’s The Sixteenth Round for the legendary Rosalind Cash.

The WIZ (Film)

Timbuktu!   [Broadway] Original Broadway Production, 1978

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She also appeared in the Paris Company of Your Arms Too Short To Box With God at the Mogador Theatre. Her choreographer has been seen most recently in the AUDELCO award-winning production The Great Men of Gospel Music (New Federal Theatre), Loves Fire (The Acting Company), The African Company Presents Richard III‚ Yermaand Flying West‚ (NYU Graduate acting program), Spunk‚ The Me Nobody Knows‚ Runaways‚ The Women of Plums‚The Cosby Show (dance mania Episode), Shakin‚ The Mess Outa Misery‚ (Capitol Repertory Company), Don‚ See My Bones and Think I am Dead (Urban Youth Troupe of the Henry Street Settlement), Bones of Our Ancestors (PBS Special)and served as a three-year judge for the NAACP National Act-So Awards competition in the dance category.

She choreographed the world premiere production of Ntozake Shange’s newest choreopoem, Lavender Lizards and Lilac Landmines: Layla‚ Dream at the Constans Theatre for the University of Florida graduate training program and for Jomandi Theatre of Atlanta.

 

 

PERFORMANCE CREDITS 

 

Ti-Jean and His Brothers
Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival
Delacorte Theatre
New York, NY
Various Venues in New York
New York, NY
July 20 – August 6, 1972
Dancer

 

The Great Macdaddy

St. Mark’s Playhouse

02/12/1974

 

 

The Wiz
  [Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1975
Field Mouse [Replacement]
Munchkin [Replacement]
Performer (Swing) [Replacement]

 

 

 

Timbuktu!
  [Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1978
Ensemble/Other Roles
Citizen of Timbuktu
Bird in Paradise (Understudy)
Najua (Understudy)

 

 

Spell # 7

Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater

07/15/1979

Player #4

 

 

Dunbar  [Off-Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Off-Broadway Production, 1980
Performer

 

 

Sunjata Kamalenya
McCarter Theatre Center Education
Various Venues
February 1 – April 27, 2011
Choreographer.

 

 

Love’s Fire: Fresh Numbers

by Seven American Playwrights Inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Hydraulics Phat Like Mean
The Public Theater, The Acting Company
The Public Theater
New York, NY
June 22 – July 5, 1998
Choreographer

 

Going To The River 2007
Boscoe and the Devil
Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre
New York, NY
September 21 – 30, 2007
Choreographer

 

 

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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]