Acting for the Camera Faculty
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 Austin's State Theatre and Zachary Scott Theatre. Television and film credits include Walker, Texas Ranger, Another World, One Life to Live, Hallmark Hall of Fame's After the Fall (with Faye Dunaway), Medea, A Glorious System of Things, and Miss Congeniality (starring Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine). Most recently Douglas is featured as the Crime Boss Attorney in the major motion picture Man of the House (starring Tommy Lee Jones). Douglas has also directed in numerous professional and university theatres.
Lucien Douglas is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching acting and directing in both the graduate and undergraduate programs; he is also the Administrative Head of the M.F.A. in Directing Program. Douglas received the 2000 Texas Excellence Teaching Award for the University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts, and is a member of the Texas Educational Theatre Association Adjudicators' Organization. He was recently selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, as well as in Who's Who in America.
Nationally, Douglas has garnered extensive credits in both academic and professional theatre circles: he has been a guest director and/or instructor at The Juilliard School; North Carolina School of the Arts; New York University Graduate Acting Program; Pennylvania State University; Clarence Brown Company at the University of Tennessee; and South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts. He has also taught in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Weist-Barron Television School. Most recently he has been a guest director at St. Edward's University in Austin, TX (where he staged A Midsummer-Night's Dream), Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX (where he staged The House of Bernarda Alba), and the Oklahoma Arts Institute (where he conducted a Master Class Acting Workshop for high school teachers' professional development program.) His many productions at UT Austin include the world premiere of Robert Schenkkan's comedy The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune.
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.
