Terry Burrell

 

TERRY BURRELL

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by Dale Ricardo Shields

TERRY BURRELL is a stage actor of West Indian-American descent. Terry’s Broadway credits include Three Penny Opera, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Swinging On A Star, Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods, and Michael Bennett’s Dreamgirls, Honky Tonk Nights, Eubie and the first London production of Showboat as Julie. In regional theatre, Terry was nominated for the Helen Hayes Best Actress In a Musical award for her portrayal of Queenie in Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie. 

 

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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.

Other regional credits include the role of Aldonza in Man Of La Mancha, Eve in Arthur Miller’s Up From Paradise, Diana Deveraux in Of Thee I Sing, Glenda/Aunt Em in The Wiz, Ella in Bubbling Brown Sugar, Maydee in Jar the Floor, Good Sister in Thunder Knockin’At The Door, Conchita in Barry Manilow’s Copacabana, Mrs.Brown/Mavis in The Women of Brewster Place, The Queen/Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Aunt Eller in OKlahoma and featured roles in  Almost Heaven at the Promenade Theatre, Grand Night For Singing, Crowns, Sweet and Hot, Ain’t Misbehavin, Time and Again, The World Goes Round at The West Side Arts Theatre,  Sheila’s Day, Sophisticated Ladies, Smokey Joes Café, and Brownie Points. In addition, Terry is a seasoned cabaret artist who’s performed her nightclub act for audiences from Monte Carlo to the Caribbean and for corporate clients like IBM, Avon, and The National Grocers Association. Her work also includes television commercials, radio voice-overs, and industrials for Ford Motor Company, Searle Pharmaceuticals, Goodyear Tires, I Love New York, and Schering-Plough Corporation. Terry has performed in several Jazz In July concerts with Dick Hyman, Lyrics and Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y, The Duke Ellington Orchestra in Venice Italy and most recently for the jazz festival in Oslo Norway. Her most recent appearance was at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Walnut Street Theatre for the world premiere of her one-woman piece” ETHEL,” a theatrical tribute to Ethel Waters also written and performed by Terry.

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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.

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Iforcolor.org [Research]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Ricardo_Shields [Career]