2012 Young Artist Award Nominee for Best in Live Theatre 2012 Young Artist Award Nominee for Best Performance in a TV Series, Guest Starring 10 and under
2011 Denver Post Ovation Award Winner for Best Supporting Actor,
Touring Show
2010 Suzi Bass Award Nominee for Best Musical (I Dream)
LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 27: Niles Fitch attends the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. 480620 (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Turner)
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Atypical – Season 3 | Netflix
Netflix’s coming-of-age drama about a teenager on the autistic spectrum is returning for a third season.
Miss Virginia
In the film “Miss Virginia,” Uzo Aduba plays the role of Virginia Walden Ford, a mother trying to get a better education for her son, played by Niles Fitch. (Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment)
Based on a true story, MISS VIRGINIA stars Emmy® winner Uzo Aduba as a struggling single mother who is losing her fifteen-year-old son to the rough streets of Washington, DC. Unwilling to see him drop out and deal drugs, she places him in a private school. But when she can’t afford tuition, she launches a movement to change the system that is destroying him and thousands like him. Attacked and threatened by those who don’t want change—from corrupt politicians to the local drug lord—Virginia must discover depths of strength she never knew she had. Emmy® nominee Vanessa Williams (SOUL FOOD, MY BROTHER), Emmy® nominee Aunjanue Ellis (WHEN THEY SEE US), Amirah Vann (UNDERGROUND), Emmy® nominee Adina Porter (AMERICAN HORROR STORY), Niles Fitch (THIS IS US), Nadji Jeter (WONDER), and Golden Globe nominee Matthew Modine (STRANGER THINGS, FULL METAL JACKET) round out MISS VIRGINIA’s stellar cast.
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NILES FITCH An up-and-coming actor known for the NBC series THIS IS US, Fitch plays Virginia’s gifted but troubled teenager James, who will wind up dealing drugs on DC’s violent streets unless his mother finds a way to secure him a better future.
“This Is Us” Star Niles Fitch is Disney’s First Live-Action Black Prince
Disney’s first Black live-action prince has finally arrived in the year 2020. Per Entertainment Weekly, actor Niles Fitch, who’s best known for his role as young Randall on This Is Us, will play a character named Prince Tuma in a new Disney+ movie, Secret Society of Second-Born Royals. Secret Society, which also stars Pitch Perfect’s Skylar Astin and Andi Mack alum Peyton Elizabeth Lee, is a sci-fi film about second-born royals who are gifted with special powers that help them protect the world. The young royals have to learn how to harness their powers and use them for good, so they’re taken to a special school and led by Professor James Morrow, played by Skylar. Prince Tuma, Niles’s character, is said to be “charismatic” — his “super-human ability is vital to the team’s success, but his self-centered nature needs a lesson in empathy,” his bio reads, per Disney+. Niles shared the exciting news on his Instagram, writing, “Welcome Disney’s first Black prince.” EW also released first-look photos of the entire cast, which you can check out below. The full cast includes Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Sam, Skylar Astin as James, Olivia Deeble as Roxana, Niles Fitch as Tuma, Faly Rakotohavana as Matteo, Isabella Blake Thomas as January, Elodie Yung as Queen Catherine, Ashley Liao as Eleanor, Noah Lomax as Mike, and Greg Bryk as Inmate 34.
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.
