About - DALE RICARDO SHIELDS

Dale Ricardo Shields
AEA-SAG-AFTRA-AGMA-SSDC - Phi Kappa Phi. The Kennedy Center/Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award. 2015/17 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award.

B.F.A / M.F.A. {Summa Cum Laude}
Ohio University.

Directing: A Raisin in the Sun, Ragtime, Crowns, Top Dog/Underdog, Fires in The Mirror, Laughter on the Twenty Third Floor, Driving Miss Daisy, Quatermaine's Terms, Of Mice and Men, Godspell, Same Time Next Year, The Me Nobody Knows, A Streetcar Named Desire, Golden Boy, Fame, Three Ways Home, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, For Colored Girls..., Rumors, The Brownsville Raid, Man of La Mancha, Before It Hits Home, Golden Boy, Trouble in Mind, The Amen Corner, A Soldier's Play, The Me Nobody Knows, The Colored Museum, Home, I, Too Sing America, Something Wanted, If you are Seeing This It's Too Late. How do you Slam a Revolving Door - {A Word Jam}.

Asst Director to Lloyd Richards for the New Federal Theatre production of Ossie Davis’ new play A Last Dance With Sybil (Ruby Dee)

Professional credits as a Director, Stage manager and Actor (Broadway, Off Broadway and Regional) New Federal Theatre, The Negro Ensemble Company, The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Upward Bound, The Hilberry Repertory Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Playwrights Horizon, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actors Studio, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The York Players, The Cleveland School of the Arts.

Acting
(AEA-SAG-AFTRA-AGMA) studied at The Negro Ensemble Company and The Henry Street Settlement House with Hal Scott and Dick Anthony Williams. New York City revival of Any One Can Whistle, the Lincoln Center, Lily directed by Tom O’ Horgan at Lincoln Center. ITV television series Special Needs. The Bill Cosby Show, Another World, Guiding Light, Saturday Night Live, and Ann Margaret’s Salute to Radio City Music Hall with Ben Vereen. Saint Paul Civic Symphony at The Saint Paul Landmark Center in A Lincoln Portrait.

Stage Management
Black Nativity The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Ebony and Life Sea Treasures at the South Street Seaport, De Obeah Mon at The Actors Studio Martin Luther King’s Birthday Celebration - Studio 54.

Academic:
SUNY Potsdam
Susquehanna University
Denison University
Randolph-Macon College
Macalester College
The College of Wooster
Ohio University’s Theater Division
Wayne State University
Public Theatre (NYSF)
South Bronx Community Theatre
Karamu House
Cleveland School of The Arts

Courses Taught:
Acting 1
Acting 2
Scene Study
Improvisation
Directing 1
Directing 2
Intro to Theatre
Black Theatre History
Intro to Black Studies
Stage Management

Phi Kappa Phi

Unions: AEA-SAG-AFTRA-AGMA-The Society of Stage Choreographers and Directors
Phi Kappa Phi

Unions: AEA-SAG-AFTRA-AGMA-The Society of Stage Choreographers and Directors

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