A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Doug’s play "Phillie's Trilogy" was recently named a Semi-Finalist for Barrington Stage Company's Burman New Play Award, placing in the top 60 out of over 450 submissions. It also won Scrap Mettle Arts Inaugural Emerging Playwrights Program competition, was chosen to inaugurate Great Griffon’s “Seeking The Queer Voice” reading series in January 2017, and was produced as part of the 2017 Fresh Fruit Festival, where it recieved a Fresh Fruit Award of Distinction for Outstanding Production. Other work includes "The Fierce Urgency Of Now," also produced at the 2016 Fresh Fruit festival, where it won four Fresh Fruit Awards of Distinction, including Outstanding Play, and Outstanding Production; "Major Divisions" (recently named a Semi-Finalist for Normal Avenue's New American Play Series and B Street Theatre's New Comedies Festival, under the title "Upper Division"); "NELL DASH, The Gruesomely Merry Adventures Of An Irrepressibly Sensible Capitalist With A Vengeance;" and "Just A Rumor" (co-written with Gary Lyons) which was a Semi-Finalist at the Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference and has had readings at New York’s Abingdon Theatre Company and London’s Menier Chocolate Factory. His ten-minute play, "Checking The Basement for Leaks" (the first play in "Phillie's Trilogy") has been performed at the Gallery Players Black Box Festival in New York, The Driftwood Players Short Works Festival in Seattle, Ramapo College in New Jersey, and The Warner International Playwrights Festival in Connecticut. He has also collaborated with actress Lane Bradbury (the original Dainty June in Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman) on her one-woman show "Let Me Entertain You, Again," which was performed at the Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, as well as Feinstein’s/54 Below, and Don’t Tell Mama in New York.

Doug was invited into the 2019 Kennedy Center Summer Playwrights Intensive, where he studied with Mark Bly, Gary Garrison, Jackie Goldfinger, and Caleen Jennings, and he belongs to both Rogelio's Rogues, and The 36th Street Writers Block (formerly Abingdon Theatre Playwrights Group 1) in Manhattan. He has also studied with Robert Askins, Karen Hartman, Lyle Kessler, Rogelio Martinez, Winter Miller, Michael Walkup, and Eric Webb.He currently sits on the Advisory Board for The Fresh Fruit Festival.

In a past life, he was an Art director/Copywriter for such advertising agencies as Grey Global Group, J. Walter Thompson, and N.W. Ayer, and served as the marketing director for Abingdon Theatre Company for four years. He was also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Advertising Design Department at F.I.T. in New York. All of the above, along with a Catholic school education and his Irish Catholic, Depression-era mother, have given him an unbelievable amount of material.