Ruben Santiago-Hudson

AUGUST WILSON’S The PIANO LESSON 

Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (2012)

From Signature Theatre’s 2012-13 Season. In Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1936, the Charles family battle each other over their shared legacy – an antique piano. The fourth play of Wilson’s epic Century Cycle, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Piano Lesson is a stunning and moving drama of family, history, and survival.

Cast – ERIC LENOX ABRAMS, CHUCK COOPER, BRANDON J. DIRDEN, JASON DIRDEN, ALEXIS HOLT,
MANDI MASDEN, ROSLYN RUFF, and JAMES A. WILLIAMS

Photos by Joan Marcus

AUGUST WILSON’S TWO TRAINS RUNNING

Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (2012)

Two River Theater · Red Bank, NJ

2012 © Michal Daniel
Owiso Odera, Roslyn Ruff, James A. Williams, Anthony Chisholm, Chuck Cooper, John Earl Jelks. — with James Austin Williams and Chuck Cooper at Two River Theater.

 

 

AUGUST WILSON’S JITNEY

Broadway premiere directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

With Harvy Blanks, Anthony Chisholm, Brandon J. Dirden, André Holland, Carra Patterson, Michael Potts, Keith Randolph Smith, Ray Anthony Thomas, John Douglas Thompson

Manhattan Theatre Club 

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York.

2017

Jitney
AUGUST WILSON’S JITNEY
Broadway premiere directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
With Harvy Blanks, Anthony Chisholm, Brandon J. Dirden, André Holland, Carra Patterson, Michael Potts, Keith Randolph Smith, Ray Anthony Thomas, John Douglas Thompson.

Ruben and Anthony Chisholm

 

August Wilson’s Jitney: 6 Tony Award Nominations

The Broadway premiere of August Wilson’s Jitney has been nominated for 6 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruben Santiago-Hudson thanks MTC

 JITNEY 2017 Tony Award win for Best Revival

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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.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Ricardo_Shields [Career]