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Doug Brook

Actor - Director - Writer

About the artist:

Doug Brook has written, directed, acted, stage managed, and designed for many Bay Area theatres.

2010

• Finding God (writer), Pear Slices 2010, Pear Avenue Theatre


• The Case of the Cereal Killer (writer), Actors' Theatre (Santa Cruz) part of 8 10's @ 8 Festival (Winner, 15th Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest)

2009

• Lot in Life (writer), Actors' Theatre (Santa Cruz) (staged readings; (Runner Up, 11th Annual Full Length Playwrighting Contest)


• Chicken (Dave), City Lights Theatre Company (staged reading)


• Purgatory Paradise (director), Actors' Theatre (Santa Cruz)


• Saturday Night Six-Pack - six new short play readings (writer), Dragon Productions After Hours Series


• The Unexpected Guest (Inspector Thomas), Northside Theatre Company


• Attention Surplus Disorder (writer), Ross Valley Players (staged readings)

2008

• Ragtime (J.P. Morgan), Saratoga Drama Group


• Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch), Center Stage Productions


• Alternate Proposal (writer), Camino Real Playhouse (Capistrano, CA)

2007

• A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine (Lighting Designer), Sunnyvale Community Players


• More Than Petticoats (Principal Writer, Assistant Director), Tabard Theatre


• The Odd Couple (Roy), Actors Theatre Center


• Original Synergy (Writer), Playhouse on the Green, Bridgeport, CT (Semi-finalist, 2007 ARTSport Playwriting Contest)


• Honk! (Greylag, Father Swann), West Valley Light Opera

 

2006

• Tomfoolery (Doug), Studio Theatre of California (at Theatre on San Pedro Square)


• Private Lives (Victor Prynne), Northside Theatre Company

 

2005

• City of Angels (Del Dacosta, Mahoney, Gene; Tech Director, Set Designer), Sunnyvale Community Players


• Young Billy (Chisum, Sheriff, Judge), Bus Barn Stage Company


• 42nd Street (Director, Tech Director, Set Designer), Sunnyvale Community Players


• The Fantasticks (Hucklebee), Stage One Community Theatre

 

2004

• Merrily We Roll Along (Director), Sunnyvale Community Players


• Lucky Stiff (Director), Pacifica Spindrift Players


• Fiddler on the Roof (Director), Sunnyvale Community Players


• Lend Me a Tenor (Director), Santa Clara Players (SCP Best Director Award)


• The Foreigner (Lighting Designer), Pacifica Spindrift Players

2003

• Joseph... (Simeon, Butler), Sunnyvale Community Players


• This Week's Agenga (renamed Original Synergy) (Writer), Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz (Finalist, 5th Annual Full-Length Playwrighting Contest)


• Alternate Proposal (Writer), Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz (Runner Up, 8th Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest)


• On the Twentieth Century (Bismark), Foothill Music Theatre


• Crossing Delancey (Dialect/Cultural Coach), Hillbarn Theatre Company

2002

• A Funny Thing... Forum (Marcus Lycus), Stage One Repertory Theatre


• Retrograde (Writer), Streetlight Productions, Theatre Row on 42nd Street, NYC (Professional NYC Premiere)


• The 1940s Radio Hour (Lighting Designer), Sunnyvale Community Players


• Witness for the Prosecution (Mr. Myers, the prosecutor), Stage One Repertory Theatre


• On the Town (Miss Turnstiles Announcer, Quartet), Foothill Music Theatre


• Oklahoma! (Director), Sunnyvale Community Players


• She Loves Me (Hugo), Foothill Music Theatre

2001

• 42nd Street (Pat Denning, u/s Julian Marsh), West Valley Light Opera


• The Time of Your Life (Wesley, onstage pianist), Northside Theatre Company


• Two Jews (Writer), Actors Theatre, Santa Cruz (Runner up, 6th Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest)


• Crazy For You (Director), Sunnyvale Community Players


• Damn Yankees (Director), West Valley Light Opera

2000

• Triumph of Love (Stage Crew), TheatreWorks


• The Secret Garden (Major Holmes), Sunnyvale Community Players


• Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Freddy), Palo Alto Players


• The Will Rogers Follies (Wiley Post, u/s Will Rogers & Clem Rogers), West Valley Light Opera


• State Fair (Stage Manager), San Jose Children's Musical Theatre


• The Goodbye Girl (Stage Manager, Tech Director, Asst. Director), Saratoga Drama Group

1999

• Annie (Roosevelt, Bert Healy, Lighting Designer), This Side of the Hill Players


• Annie (Stage Crew), American Musical Theatre of San Jose


• George Washington Slept Here (Lighting Designer), This Side of the Hill Players


• Joseph... (Judah), West Valley Light Opera


• Self Expression (Writer), Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz (Honorable Mention, 1st Annual Full-Length Playwrighting Contest)


• Blood Brothers (Mr. Lyons), Palo Alto Players


• Middle Aged White Guys (Lighting Designer), This Side of the Hill Players


• How To Succeed... (Ovington, Matthews), Foothill Music Theatre


• Retrograde (Writer), Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz (Winner, 4th Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest


• On Golden Pond (Lighting Designer), This Side of the Hill Players

1998

• Little Shop of Horrors (Lighting Designer), This Side of the Hill Players


• Doubles (Stage Manager, Asst. Director), Santa Clara Players


• Fiddler on the Roof (Mendel), Foothill Music Theatre


• Retrograde is in 8 10s @ 8, published by Smith & Kraus), and recurringly produced at theatres/universities throughout the country

East Coast Highlights

Birmingham Summerfest Theatre (technical staff), 3 seasons City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh PA (PR Asst.) 1 year Scotch n Soda Theatre, CMU student theatre (Tech Director/Lighting Designer) 2 years Directed Richard Cory, Deathtrap, Dracula, Interpersonal Relations

Background

Dramatists Guild of America (Associate Member)

Carnegie Mellon University (Bachelor's & Master's degrees in writing and theatre)

Featured Backpage Columnist (since 1996) for Southern Jewish Life magazine

By day: Director, Information Development, for Mirapoint Software, Inc.

Born and bred: Birmingham, Alabama