Ruben Santiago-Hudson

                       

        A Tony and Obie Award winner,

              whose acting credits span stage, television, and film.

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“To many, Ruben Santiago Hudson is known as one of the greatest Black directors of all time with greats like George C. Wolfe and Kenny Leon. But Ruben’s first rendezvous with August Wilson’s work was as Canewell in the original Broadway cast of Seven Guitars starring Viola Davis and Keith David. He won the tony in 1996 for Best Featured Actor has not looked back since. Now he’s considered an expert on the Pittsburgh cycle and continues to spread August Wilson’s legacy across the country.” – Black Broadway

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Ruben Santiago Hudson wins the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Canewell in Seven Guitars.

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He has performed in more than 100 plays. His portrayal of Canewell in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars garnered him a Tony award.

Jelly’s Last Jam

Ruben made his Broadway acting debut as Buddy Bolden in Jelly’s Last Jam.

– JELLY’S LAST JAM 

L.A. Cast of Jelly’ s Last Jam (pre-Broadway). – Freda Payne, Karole Foreman, Scotch Ellis Loring, Keith David, Linda Twine, Leilani Jones, Obba Babatundé, Peggy Ann Blow, Robert Fleming, Robert Fleming, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Tonya Pinkins, Phyllis, Phylliss Bailey Brooks, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Mary Bond Davis, and DeBorah Lynn Sharpe-Taylor.

Jelly’s Last Jam workshop-November 1991 –  Savion Glover, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Keith David, Mamie Duncan-Gibbs,  and Gregory Hines.

Seven Guitars

 

SEVEN GUITARS by August Wilson Goodman Theatre..Chicago.. – Ruben Santiago Hudson, Jerome Preston Bates, Albert Hall and Tommy Hollis.. – Directed WALTER DALLAS

 

Seven Guitars
1996: Ruben Santiago-Hudson. [Keith David]

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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]