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PRODUCTION CREDITS

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Bold and Brassy Blues
a play
author

The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz
a play
author

Low Down Dirty Blues
Northlight Theatre, Florida Stage
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
Skokie, IL
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Rinker Playhouse
West Palm Beach, FL
May 27 – September 5, 2010

Hot Feet
Hilton Theatre
New York, NY
April 20 – July 23, 2006

Rollin’ on the TOBA
El Portal Theatre
North Hollywood, CA
2000
Bertha Mae Little

Rollin’ on the TOBA
Frenchmen Productions
Henry Miller’s Theatre
New York, NY
1999
Bertha Mae Little

Rollin’ on the TOBA
Frenchmen Productions
47th Street Theatre
New York, NY
1999
Bertha Mae Little

Artists and Models and Madness
Kenley Players
University of Akron EJ Thomas Hall
Akron, OH
August 23 – 28, 1983

AWARDS 

2010
Nomination:
THE JEFFERSON Award: Actress in a Revue
Low Down Dirty Blues — performer

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Filmography

2016 Good Funk
Eva Moore
2015 Ma and Rhonda (Short)
Ma
2013 Don’t Hold Back (Short)
Rose
2006 Trixie (Short)
Grandma
2002 Don’t Explain
Ma
1990-2001 Law & Order (TV Series)
Landlady / Mrs. Thelma Crawford
– Armed Forces (2001) … Landlady
– Out of the Half-Light (1990) … Mrs. Thelma Crawford
1999 Strangers with Candy (TV Series)
Walter Lee Younger
– Dreams on the Rocks (1999) … Walter Lee Younger
1999 A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (TV Series)
Vocals
– Episode dated 16 January 1999 (1999) … Vocals
1999 Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series)
Eunetta Bryce
– Shades of Gray (1999) … Eunetta Bryce (as Sandra Reeves-Phillips)
1994 Following Her Heart (TV Movie)
Maisie (as Sandra Reaves)
1993 For Love or Money
Marie
1989 Lean on Me
Mrs. Powers
1986 ‘Round Midnight
Buttercup
1978 ABC Weekend Specials (TV Series)
Mrs. Mulberry
– The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody (1978) … Mrs. Mulberry (as Sandra Phillips)
1975 The Happy Hooker
In the Pink (as Sandra Phillips)

Soundtrack 

1999 A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (TV Series) (performer – 1 episode)
– Episode dated 16 January 1999 (1999) … (performer: “SNATCH AND GRAB IT“, “TROUBLE IN MIND“, “C. C. RIDER, “SO LONG, IT’S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH“)

1989 Lean on Me (performer: “Lean on Me”)

1986 ‘Round Midnight (performer: “Put It Right Here”)

Other Works

(2009-2010 Season) She performed in the revue, “Low Down Dirty Blues,” at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Illinois with Mississippi Charles Bevel, Felicia P. Fields, and Gregory Porter in the cast.

(1992 – 1993) Her play, “The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz,” was performed in an American Conservatory Theatre production in San Francisco, California. Rick Khan was the director.

(2002 – 2003) Her play, “The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz,” was performed in an American Contemporary Theatre production in San Francisco, California. Rick Khan was the director.

(2003 – 2004) Her play, “Bold and Brassy Blues,” was performed in an American Contemporary Theatre production in San Francisco, California.

(September 17, 1992, to November 1, 1993) She acted in August Wilson’s play, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” at the Public Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

(May 19 to June 14, 1987) Her musical, ‘The Late Great Ladies of Blues & Jazz,” was performed in The Arena Stage Theatre at the Kreeger Theater in Washington D.C.

(September 28 to October 9, 1993) She performed in the All-Star Band and her musical revue, “The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz,” in the Fall Festival production at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts with the All-Star Jazz Band in the cast. Robert Brustein was the artistic director.

(September 5 to 10, 1995) She performed in All-Star Jazz Band and her play, “The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz,” in the Fall Festival production at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts with the All-Star Jazz Band in the cast. Robert Brustein was the artistic director.

(1970) Music album: “Too Many People in One Bed” (Canyon Records)

 

Education

CLARA BARTON VOCATIONAL H.S

Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble
 Cosmetology/Cosmetologist, Performing Arts

William H. Maxwell Vocational H. S.

CHRISTMAS AT THE VATICAN –Pope John Paul II

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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]