Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Film)

2020  

Truly honored. Thank you, August Wilson, and everyone who breathed life into this movie.

8 NOMINATIONS!

 

 

Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.

Initial release: December 18, 2020

Director: George C. Wolfe
Screenplay: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Music composed by Branford Marsalis
Producers: Denzel Washington, Todd Black

Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Glynn Turman, Dusan Brown, and Taylour Paige. Coming to Netflix

BWW Interview: Ruben Santiago-Hudson Talks Adapting MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, Chadwick Boseman and More
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom comes to Netflix on December 18.
by Chloe Rabinowitz Dec. 13, 2020

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Interview-Ruben-Santiago-Hudson-Talks-Adapting-MA-RAINEYS-BLACK-BOTTOM-Chadwick-Boseman-and-More-20201213?fbclid=IwAR3GeswmS9apKBMFE00nI8AfZ90W-LHv7EOU8BuWyA1H_-DWrEHIGZ117nE.    

“August gives people the experience of African American life. It’s not history, it’s the experience. And that experience makes you look at me a different way.”
~ RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON

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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.