Doug has enjoyed a long and successful career as a television creative director, writer, and twice-Emmy nominated producer and commercial director. As a network promo producer/director, he's worked for NBC, ABC, CBS, BET, UPN, the Disney Channel, and E! Entertainment Television. He's launched several networks including UPN, SoapNet, and LOGO. His awards include a BPME silver medal and a New England Ad Age Best of Award. Doug has written and produced more than 5,000 TV, radio, print and outdoor ad campaigns and commercials . He's had the opportunity to direct such talented actors as Kate Hudson, William Shatner, Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry, Martin Sheen, and Candice Bergen to name a few. In 2012 Doug decided to move over to feature film directing. He started with a comedy he wrote, produced, and directed, called Hot Guys with Guns (Wolfe, 2013) A comedy of errors about two former lovers who find themselves in the middle of a crime spree targeting Hollywood’s Velvet Mafia that turns them in to would-be-detectives - The award winning film played at 41 festivals on five continents.- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as to include the screenplay for Hot Guys with Guns in the permanent collection of the Academy library. The film’s main title song, Something To Shoot For written by 5-time Grammy winner Mervyn Warren was short-listed in the Best Original Song category at the 2015 Academy Awards. The film is available on most streaming platforms. Doug’s second film, a love-story set in Philadelphia called From Zero to I Love You starring Darryl Stephens, Scott Bailey, Keili Lefkovitz and Leslie Zemeckis made its international debut at the British Film Institute’s Flair Festival in March of 2019. It was released by Ariztical in the summer of 2020 and is also available on all streaming platforms. In its first two weeks on Amazon Prime FZTILY was the number one selling DVD/Streamed film in its genre. His third feature, a thriller called Delilah Underwood set in New Orleans, where Doug now lives is in pre-production. In the last three years Doug has directed four short films, an eight episode series called Not For Nothin’ available on Amazon and a television pilot presentation for an original series, a comedy about a child star who’s hit the skids and his one remaining stalker determined to get him back on top called The Natural Order of Things.  As an actor in film and television Doug starred as Professor Chance Counter in the ground breaking television series Noah's Arc on LOGO and the feature film of the same name. His career highlights also include work on Law And Order: True Crime: The Menendez Brothers, The Young and The Restless, All My Children, StarTrek Voyager, The Drew Carey Show, Charmed, The Hughleys, MAD TV, Girlfriends, We Have A Ghost for Netflix Studios, and the motion picture Cradle 2 The Grave with Jet Li and DMX. C and Any Day Now, which won best of the Fest at Tribeca (2012) starring opposite Alan Cumming. His stage work includes the American premier of The Ice Pick, the Tony Award Winning South Coast Rep's premier of Howard Corder’s The Hollow Lands, the critically acclaimed production of The Bacchae , playing Dionysus, at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Most recently he played John The Baptist in the world premier of Salome at the Mack Sennet in Los Angeles. Doug studied under director/teacher Milton Katselas, the Golden Globe winning actor Jeffrey Tambor, and Richard Lawson and Gloria Gifford. Doug has served on several boards; Equality California, The Los Angeles Relational Center, The Celebration Theater, Outfest Los Angeles and The New Orleans Film Society. He’s also a slightly above average polo player and a pretty good photographer.