Terry Burrell

Filed under Actress, Playwright, Singer
November 28, 2018

TERRY BURRELL

by Dale Ricardo Shields

TERRY BURRELL is a Broadway leading actress of West Indian-American descent and accomplished Broadway musical leading lady!

LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL

**“Change your consciousness and you change your experience in life.”**

CINDERELLA

Her vast Broadway credits include starring roles in more major productions on the Great White Way than most, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dreamgirls, Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Eubie, Swinging on a Star, and she also starred as Julie in the first London production of Showboat.

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Alaina Reed Hall, Alisa Gyse, Alliance Theatre, Arnetia Walker, Ashton Springer, Bernadette Peters, Bernie Jacobs, Cheryl Alexander, Cleavant Derricks, Clinton-Derricks Carroll, Dale Ricardo Shields, Dale Shields, Deborah Burrell, Debye Burrell Cleveland, Delores King Williams, Doug Eskew, DREAMGIRLS, Ethel Betty, Ethel Waters, Eubie, Frank Mastrone, Gregory Hines, Ira Hawkins, Janet Powell, Jeffery V. Thompson, Joe Morton, Julia Lema, Kevyn Morrow, LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL, Lance Roberts, Laurie Beechman, Lee Summers, Lonnie McNeil, Loretta Devine, Lynnie Godfrey, Marion Ramsey., Martha Swope, Marva Hicks, Maurice Hines Jr, Mel Johnson J, Mel Johnson Jr, Monica Page, Pearl Cleage, Reginald Vel Johnson, Richard Jay-Alexander, Shelley Thomas, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Stephanie Waters, Stormy Weather, Synchronicity Theatre, Terry Burrell, Tijuana T. Ricks, Tina Fabrique

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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.