Douglas is the Artistic Director of Transport and a freelance theatre director who has directed for the Barbican, Trafalgar Studios, Dundee Rep Theatre, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, National Theatre Studio, Salisbury Playhouse, New Wolsey Theatre, Creation, Central School of Speech and Drama, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is also a long-standing associate director to Simon McBurney/Complicite and an assistant and associate director to Deborah Warner. He won a prestigious Channel 4 Theatre Director Scheme bursary and an Esmeé Fairbairn Regional Theatre Initiative award.

Douglas is currently Artist in Residence with Ice & Fire working on a new project The Art of Dying and is also in research & development with Upswing working on a new project about aging.

He will direct Of Mice & Men for the Watermill Theatre this Spring.