Dale Ricardo Shields BIOGRAPHY Actor* Director* Educator* Producer* – Artistic Activist BFA / MFA – Ohio University Broadway, Off-Broadway, LORT, Film, Television AEA-AFTRA/SAG-AGMA – Phi Kappa Phi Dale Ricardo Shields is a prominent theater educator, historian, archivist, and director whose work focuses on using theater and digital preservation as tools for social justice, education, and …
by DALE RICARDO SHIEDS – The House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, established in 1870 in Cheltenham, Maryland, was the first juvenile reformatory for Black boys in the American South. Originally intended to remove Black youth from adult prisons, it became a site of systemic abuse, forced labor, and severe neglect for decades. …
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON Writer, Director, and Performer by Dale Ricardo Shields RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson is the director of the recent Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Jitney which garnered several awards including the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League, …
The CENTRAL PARK FIVE by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS Five young teenagers who were wrongfully convicted as teenagers for the 1989 assault and rape of a jogger in New York City. After serving between six and 13 years in prison, they were fully exonerated in 2002 when the actual perpetrator confessed and DNA evidence confirmed …
