Lucien Douglas has enjoyed a 30-year career as an actor in professional theatre, film and television. His work has received critical acclaim in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Backstage, and Women's Wear Daily. He has played over 100 roles, which include being featured on Broadway with Zoe Caldwell and Dame Judith Anderson in Medea; Off-Broadway at New York’s Roundabout Theatre in Naked, Family Business, Candida, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with John Rubenstein and John Wood; and at several regional theatres, including the Kennedy Center, Theatre Virginia, North Shore Music Theatre, the Clarence Brown Company, and, most recently at Austin’s State Theatre (for which he received an Austin Critic’s Table Nomination as “Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy” for his performance in Annie Weisman’s Be Aggressive) and at the Zachary Scott Theatre as “Creon” in the premiere of Antigone: Looking Into the Sun. Television and film credits include Walker, Texas Ranger, Another World, One Life to Live, After the Fall (Hallmark Hall of Fame starring Faye Dunaway), Medea, A Glorious System of Things, Miss Congeniality (starring Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine), Man of the House (starring Tommy Lee Jones), and this past fall 2007 he filmed Sno Cone Stand (starring Morgan Fairchild).
Lucien Douglas is currently an Associate Professor of Acting & Directing at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received the 2000 Texas Excellence Teaching Award for the University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts. He is also a member of the Texas Educational Theatre Association Adjudicators’ Organization, and conducts workshops annually for approximately 600 high school students and drama teachers. Douglas is also listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, as well as in Who’s Who in America.
Douglas has also been a guest artist, garnering extensive credits in both academic and professional theatres across the country: he has been a director and/or instructor at The Juilliard School; North Carolina School of the Arts; New York University Graduate Acting Program; Penn State University; Clarence Brown Company at the University of Tennessee; University of Wyoming; St. Edward’s University; and South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. He has also taught in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Weist-Barron Television School. Among his many productions, he recently directed the world premiere of Robert Schenkkan’s comedy The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune at UT Austin in fall 2005; The House of Bernarda Alba for Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, fall 2006; and will direct The Shadow Box at UT Austin in spring 2008.
Lucien Douglas holds a PhD in Theatre from Michigan State University, a BFA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Connecticut, and a certificate of professional training from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
