Reyno

Reyno’s early career started at the famed Karamu House Theatre in Cleveland. His roles included: Tambourines to Glory, Fortune in Men’s Eyes, Inner City, and Hymie Finkelstein Used Lumber Company. His film credits include Fort Apache the Bronx in 1981 and the filmed Great Performances of The First Breeze of Summer in 1976.

REYNO CRAYTON 
CLARENCE DERWENT AWARD
1975 MOST PROMISING MALE PERFORMER AND THE OBIE AWARD.  

The First Breeze of Summer by Leslie Lee 


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Reyno won the 1975 Clarence Derwent Award and OBIE Award for his performance as Lou Myers.

The First Breeze of Summer – Reyno, Ethel Ayler, Moses Gunn, and Charles Brown.

REYNO and CHARLES BROWN

FRANCES FOSTER and REYNO

A complex and emotional drama, this "touching and terrifying...wonderfully moving" play deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons (New York Times. It is also tells the story of the man's now-elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks, her youthful affairs with three different men who loved and abandoned her. Stars Frances Foster (Crooklyn) and Emmy-nominee Moses Gunn (Roots).

A complex and emotional drama, this “touching and terrifying…wonderfully moving” play deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons (New York Times. It also tells the story of the man’s now-elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks, her youthful affairs with three different men who loved and abandoned her. Stars Frances Foster (Crooklyn) and Emmy-nominee Moses Gunn (Roots).

 

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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]