Stanley Wayne Mathis

 

 Stanley Wayne Mathis 

 

SNEAKPEEK PHOTOGRAPHY

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by Dale Ricardo Shields

“I read somewhere many years ago while working on the West Coast (The Jelly’s Last Jam workshop at The Mark Taper Forum) “Fame is what others give you. Success is what you give yourself.” – Stanley Wayne Mathis

 

 

Stanley Wayne Mathis has directed and choreographed for these organizations shows such as Westside Story, Little Shop Of Horrors, Jelly’s Last Jam and You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown as well as teaching acting and dance.

He studied Musical Theater at Washington International College in D.C., at Cynthia Belgraves Studios and HB Studios in NY. He also was a member of Ebony Impromptu Theater Company in D.C. and danced with The Charles Moore African Dancers And Drummers in Brooklyn, NY.

Stanley has performed on The Great White Way in Broadway productions such as Oh Kay! which won him The 1991 Fred Astaire Award for Best Dancer, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Kelli O’Hara and Matthew Broderick

 

Stanley Wayne Mathis 
Following his performance as Schroeder in the 1999 revival of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Mathis originated the roles of Paul in the 1999 Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate and Speedy Valenti in Wonderful Town in 2003. He replaced as Chief Berry in Nice Work If You Can Get It in 2012, and as Mafala Hatimbi in The Book of Mormon in 2013. He played Evan Ward on the short-lived TV series Rise. In 2019, he appeared on the stage in City Center’s Encores! staging of Call Me Madam and at New Jersey’s Two River Theater Oo-Bla-Dee.  – [ Joseph Marzullo/WENN]

Performance credits

Call Me Madam

City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert

New York City Center Mainstage Theater

New York, NY
February 6 – 10, 2019
Senator Brockbank

Cincinnati King

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre

Cincinnati, OH
November 3 – December 23, 2018
Philip Paul

 

Night of the Living N-Word!!

part of: The 20th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC 2016)

The Players Theatre

New York, NY
August 16 – 26, 2016
Clayton

 

The Book of Mormon National Tour

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Denver, CO

The Pantages Theatre

Los Angeles, CA

The SHN Curran Theatre

San Francisco, CA
and 77 other venues
August 14, 2012 – May 1, 2016
2015 – close
Mafala Hatimbi

The Book of Mormon

Eugene O’Neill Theatre

New York, NY
February 24, 2011 –
March 26 – July 7, 2013
Mafala Hatimbi 

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Imperial Theatre

New York, NY
April 2012 – June 15, 2013
opening – March 24, 2013
Chief Berry

Ruined

Florida Studio Theatre

Keating Theatre

Sarasota, FL
February 3 – April 3, 2010
credited as Stanley W. Mathis
Christian

Animal Crackers

Goodman Theatre

Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre

Chicago, IL
September 18 – November 1, 2009
Hives
Roscoe W. Chandler

Death of a Salesman

Yale Repertory Theatre

Yale Repertory Theatre

New Haven, CT
April 24 – May 23, 2009
Stanley

Gem of the Ocean

Seattle Repertory Theatre

Seattle Repertory Theatre Bagley Wright Theatre

Seattle, WA
April 5 – May 6, 2007
Caesar

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

The Ogunquit Playhouse

Ogunquit Playhouse

Ogunquit, ME
August 8 – 26, 2006
Lionel

Fences

Bristol Riverside Theatre

Bristol, PA
March 15 – April 3, 2005
Gabriel

Wonderful Town

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

New York, NY
November 23, 2003 – January 30, 2005
Speedy Valenti

Of Mice and Men

Dallas Theater Center

Arts District Theater

Dallas, TX
September 4 – 29, 2002
Crooks

Kiss Me, Kate

Martin Beck Theatre

New York, NY
October 25, 1999 – December 30, 2001
Paul

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Ambassador Theatre

New York, NY
January 23 – March 13, 1999
Schroeder

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts

Skokie, IL

The Playhouse

Wilmington, DE

The Fisher Theatre

Detroit, MI
November 18, 1998 – January 17, 1999
Schroeder

St. Louis Woman

City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert

New York City Center Mainstage Theater

New York, NY
1998

The Lion King

Walt Disney Theatrical Productions

Orpheum Theatre

Minneapolis, MN
July 8 – August 31, 1997
Banzai

The Lion King

Walt Disney Theatrical Productions

New Amsterdam Theatre

New York, NY

Minskoff Theatre

New York, NY
July 8 – August 31, 1997

original cast

Banzai

Randy Newman’s Faust

Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre

Chicago, IL
September 30 – November 2, 1996

Day of Absence

CENTERSTAGE

CENTERSTAGE

Baltimore, MD
1995 – 1996

Hot Mikado

Pittsburgh CLO

Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

Pittsburgh, PA
1994
Pish-Tush

Jelly’s Last Jam

The Virginia Theatre

New York, NY
April, 1992 – September 5, 1993
Jack the Bear

Abyssinia

Arena Stage

Arena Stage Fichandler Stage

Washington, DC
1988
Marcus

~ Production credits ~

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Brazos Valley Troupe

29th St Studio

Bryan, TX
July 9 – 23, 2009
Director

Awards

2000

nomination:
Astaire Award: Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show
Kiss Me, Kate — Paul

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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]