Lucien Douglas has enjoyed an extensive 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, and the Clarence Brown Company. Television and film credits include featured roles in 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 Sno Cone Stand (starring Morgan Fairchild). In Austin, he received a Critic's Table Nomination as “Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy” for his performance in Annie Weisman's Be Aggressive at the State Theatre; during the summer of 2010 he was featured as “Walter Flood” in the Zachary Scott Theatre (Austin) production of Becky's New Car, written and directed by Steven Dietz and starring Lauren Lane.
Lucien Douglas is the Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also teaches acting and serves as Administrative Head of the M.F.A. in Directing. He is the recipient of the 2010 Department of Theatre and Dance Teaching Excellence Award, as well as the 2000 Texas Excellence Teaching Award for the University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts. Douglas 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 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. Most recently, he 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 in fall 2006; The Shadow Box at UT Austin in spring 2008; and in spring 2009, he directed Long Day's Journey Into Night for Ar Rud Productions in Austin.
Lucien Douglas holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from Michigan State University, a B.F.A. 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.
