FRED BENJAMIN

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A Celebration of the Life
of FREDERICK C. BENJAMIN*****
Saturday, August 23rd, 2014.
6:30 pm – St Peters Church – 619 Lexington Avenue (53rd Street)

 

 “HE BROUGHT JOY AND DANCE INTO ALL OUR LIVES. KEPT HIS SENSE OF HUMOUR, KINDNESS, AND COMPASSION. BLESSED” – Ted D Williams.

Fred Benjamin

September 8, 1944 – December 14, 2013

 

Actor

(3 credits)
2007 American Gangster
Wilt Chamberlain (uncredited)

2003 Spot: The Professional (Short)
Mr. B

1998 He Got Game
Grady High School Rival Basketball Player (uncredited)

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LINKS

 

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/dec/19/dance-icon-fred-benjamin-dies-69/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/biographies/benjamin.html

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/fred-benjamin-true-stage-presence

https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/themes-essays/african-diaspora/talley-beatty/

Fred Benjamin Memorial Planned for Saturday, August 23, 2014

http://pressroom.alvinailey.org/file/alvin-ailey-with-the-company-in-1978?action=

https://www.alvinailey.org/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater/alvin-ailey

http://clarkcenternyc.org/571228/history-and-mission/

http://www.black-international-cinema.com/BIC07/bic_07_progr_INTERNET.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talley_Beatty

http://www.rufusfaulk.com/elma_lewis.html

DANCE USA – Bruce Hawkins

https://mailchi.mp/b7dc98f15233/june2018-news-from-ccnyc-1749205?e=b96e9441dc

Emery, Lynne Fauley. “Concert Dance: 1950Today.” In BLACK DANCE FROM 1619 TO TODAY. Princeton, N.J., 1988, p. 305.

Source Citation: “Fred Benjamin.” ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY. 5 vols. Macmillan, 1996. Reprinted by permission of Gale Group.

https://infinitebody.blogspot.com/2013/12/fred-benjamin-69.html

 

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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]