Ruben Santiago-Hudson

HOME by Samm Art Williams        

Epatha Merkerson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Elain Graham

Project1Voice [NYC]

Project1Voice NYC cast of HOME and HAPPY ENDING with our Project1VOICE HONORS honorees Douglas Turner Ward and Billie Allen.  Harlem Hospital Mural Pavilion. Michele Shay [L] – Erich McMillian McCall and Ebony Jo-Ann [R].

PROject1VOICE presented staged readings of HOME in cities all over the entire world in June in celebration of the American Theater! If we don’t celebrate nobody else will! — with Michele Shay, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, S. Epatha Merkerson, Elain Graham.

HOME by Samm Art Williams –  S. Epatha Merkerson and Elain Graham Project1Voice [NYC]

“You never forget your first time. This was the cast for the first production I did of Samm Art Williams HOME. The Afro-American Studio Theatre Detroit MI. With Monica and Jewel. Wonderful memories. This Monday I get to wear Cephus Miles hat once again with S. Epatha Merkerson and Elain Graham directed by Michele Shay. Harlem Hospital 135th and Lennox Ave.”

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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.