Douglas read Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. In 2000 he was awarded a Channel 4 Theatre Director's Bursary and became Resident Director at Salisbury Playhouse for two years where he assistant directed seven productions as well as directing five productions himself. In 2002 Douglas was the first recipient of the Esmée Fairbairn Regional Theatre Initiative Award that gives young directors the opportunity to direct a large-scale classic text on a main stage and in September 2002 he directed The Taming of the Shrew at Salisbury Playhouse. In 2009 he was nominated for an Arts Foundation fellowship by the National Theatre Studio and Barbican Theatre. In 2010 he won a European Cultural Foundation Award for his company to develop their new project Invisible.
Douglas is now the Artistic Director of Transport for which he directed the first major revival and English premiere of David Greig's 1994 play Europe (BITE:07/Dundee Rep Theatre). He has just directed his first short film The Drop (Synergy/Transport). As a freelance director he has directed Much Ado About Nothing and Copenhagen (Salisbury Playhouse), Touched for the Very First Time (Trafalgar Studios - What's On Stage Award Nomination for Best Solo Performance), Design for Living (Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg), King Lear (Creation), Private Lives and Travels with My Aunt (New Wolsey Theatre). He will direct Closer for Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Invisible for Transport (UK and European Tour) in 2011.
Douglas was Associate Director on Deborah Warner's Julius Caesar (BITE:05 and international tour) where he directed the chorus of 100 performers in London, Paris, Madrid and Luxembourg. He also associate directed Complicite's Endgame (Duchess Theatre), A Disappearing Number (BITE:09 and international tour) and Measure for Measure (Royal National Theatre and international tour). He assisted Deborah Warner on her production of Fidelio (Glyndebourne Festival Opera). He has directed for Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and has taught or led and led workshops for the Young Vic Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, London Metropolitan University, Birmingham University, Theatre Institute Warsaw, University of Gdansk, Rose Bruford, West Yorkshire Playhouse, NT Studio and Old Vic Theatre.
