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 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.