DALE SHIELDS

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, the 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and the winner of the 2022 EBN Legend Award (Ohio University). He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award presented jointly by the Actors' Equity Association and Actors Equity Foundation. In 2024, Shields was interviewed, filmed, and included in The HistoryMakers archives, which are housed permanently in the Library of Congress.

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 films.

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 holds B.F.A and M.F.A degree from Ohio University.