Doug’s most recent Broadway credit was Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes, who won the Tony Award for his performance. It ran during the 2022-2023 season. It opened the summer of 2025 at the Barbican in London. The play received Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work. Other Broadway outings include I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award and others), War Paint, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk nomination), The Little Mermaid, and Grey Gardens (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway credits include Posterity (Atlantic Theatre Company); Unwrap Your Candy (Vineyard Theatre); Quills (New York Theatre Workshop); Standing on Ceremony (Minetta Lane Theater); Buzzsaw Berkeley (WPA Theater). His plays and musicals have been seen in over thirty-three countries around the globe. Upcoming theater projects include the musical The Blaster’s Handbook with composer/lyricist David Clement, and a musical adaptation of the novel Less with Jason Robert Brown. Films include Quills (WGA’s Paul Selvin Award, Golden Globe nomination) and the The Burial starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones (NAACP Image Award nomination). He is the former president of the Dramatists Guild of America and a member of SAG-AFTRA, SDC, and the WGA. He has been a frequent fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Ucross. Doug serves on the Board of the New York Theater Workshop and has taught at NYU, Princeton, and Yale. He has mentored young screenwriters at Sundance for twenty years. He hails from Texas, and lives in Manhattan with his husband singer-songwriter David Clement, and their cats Glynis and Murray.
