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“Behold the Man”<\/h6>\n[aesop_audio title=”CONFESSIONS OF A P.I.M.P.” src=”https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/deshields\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2018\/01\/Andre-Intro.m4a” loop=”on” viewstart=”on” viewend=”off” hidden=”off”]\n\n\n[aesop_gallery id=”424″]\n\n
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Andr\u00e9 De Shields is the triple-crown winner of the 2019 awards season, having won the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony awards for Best Featured Actor in a musical for his critically acclaimed performance as Hermes, Messenger to the Gods, in\u00a0Hadestown<\/i>. The Actors\u2019 Equity Foundation followedsuit with the Richard Seff Award, honoring veteran stage actors\u2019 best supporting performances of the year. In 2020, Andr\u00e9 received the 2020 Grammy Award for Musical Theater Album for\u00a0Hadestown,\u00a0<\/i>an Honorary Doctor of Arts Degree from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and the 2020 AUDELCO for Lifetime Achievement. In 2019, he received the 2019 Project1Voice Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 SAGE Joyce Warshow Lifetime Achievement Award, The York Theatre Company\u2019s 2019 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He received the key to the city of his hometown, Baltimore, Maryland, from Mayor Bernard C. \u201cJack\u201d Young in August, 2019. Prior to his Tony Award win, De Shields was best known for his show-stopping performances in four legendary Broadway productions:\u00a0The Wiz<\/i>,\u00a0Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019 (<\/i>Emmy Award),<\/i>\u00a0Play On! (<\/i>Tony Nomination)<\/i>, and\u00a0The Full Monty (<\/i>Tony Nomination)<\/i>. In a career spanning 52 years, he has distinguished himself as an unparalleled actor, director, and educator, receiving in 2018 the eighth annual Off-Broadway Alliance Legend Award and the 33rd annual Bob Harrington Life Achievement Bistro Award. Among his other accolades are the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival\u2019s Living Legend Award and a 2007 Village Voice Obie Award for sustained excellence of performance, and eight AUDELCO Awards for Outstanding Performance, Direction and Choreography. His film and TV projects include Anton Ego in \u201cRatatouille: The TikTok Tok Musical\u201d, the Algebra Tutor in \u201cJohn Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch\u201d on Netflix, Chubby in \u201cKaty Keene\u201d (CW) and as Wyndham on \u201cAlmost Family.\u201d He can next be seen as Gavin Plimsoll in Charles Busch\u2019s new film,\u00a0The Sixth Reel<\/i>. De Shields is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and SDC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/u>Mr. De Shields is an esteemed alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM), where in 1970 he earned a BA in English. In May of 2004 the UWM bestowed upon him an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, followed by a second honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from SUNY-Buffalo State in September of that same year. Mr. De Shields completed his graduate work at New York University\u2019s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where in 1991 he received his MA in African American Studies. His numerous accolades also include the 2007 Village Voice OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival\u2019s Living Legend Award, a 2012 Fox Foundation Fellowship in Distinguished Achievement, Florida Atlantic University\u2019s 2014 Making Waves Award, the Theatre School at DePaul University 2015 Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Riant Theatre\u2019s 2016 Pioneer of the Arts Award, three Chicago Joseph Jefferson Awards and nine AUDELCO Awards. Mr. De Shields is the ninth of eleven children born and reared in Baltimore, Maryland. UBUNTU!<\/p>\n

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