CIRCA 1980: Sandra Reeves-Phillips as Big Bertha Williams with Vernel Bagneris as Papa Du in the stage play “One Mo’ Time” The Great New Orleans Jazz Musical. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
CIRCA 1980: Sandra Reeves-Phillips as Big Bertha Williams, Vernel Bagneris as Papa Du, and Jackee Harry as Ma Reed in the stage play “One Mo’ Time” The Great New Orleans Jazz Musical. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
CIRCA 1980: Sandra Reeves-Phillips as Big Bertha Williams in the stage play “One Mo’ Time” The Great New Orleans Jazz Musical. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
CIRCA 1980: Sandra Reeves-Phillips as Big Bertha Williams in the stage play “One Mo’ Time” The Great New Orleans Jazz Musical. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Further Mo’
1990
THE VILLAGE GATE DOWNSTAIRS ( 1990 ) FURTHER MO’
Raisin (Musical)
Daddy Goodness
“Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Gary Easterlins and Clifton Davis in a scene from the musical ‘Daddy Goodness.‘”
“Low Down Dirty Blues”
Northlight Theatre.
“Low Down Dirty Blues” at Northlight Theatre. – Sandra Reeves-Phillips, Mississippi Charles Bevel, Felicia Fields and Gregory Porter in Florida Stage’s – Photo: Ken Jaques Photography
Gregory Porter, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Felicia P. Fields and Mississippi Charles Bevel in Low Down Dirty Blues Photo by Michael Brosilow
Rollin on the T.O.B.A
Ted Levy, Sandra ReavesPhillips, and Ronald “Smokey” Stevens perform in Rollin on the T.O.B.A., a musical revue at the El Portal Center for the Arts, paying tribute to the last of the black vaudevillians. (Photo by George Wilhelm/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“ROUND MIDNIGHT“
Written by Bertrand Tavernier and David Rayfiel
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
With Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, and Martin Scorsese.
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.