Reginald L. Douglas is the Artistic Producer of City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, a leading center for the development and production of bold new plays. At City, Reginald curates, line-produces, and directs in the theater’s six-show season and annual Momentum Festival of New Plays; oversees casting operations and artistic initiatives; and builds community and artistic partnerships both locally and nationally. In addition to his career at City, Reginald directs extensively throughout the country, having worked at venues including the Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference and National Music Theatre Conferences, Theater Works Hartford, Theatre Squared, Playwrights Center, McCarter, Luna Stage, Harlem Stage, Wild Project, Signature Center, Drama League, Rattlestick, and many others. He has developed and directed plays by many acclaimed writers including Dominique Morisseau, Colman Domingo, Nikkole Salter, Zakiyyah Alexander & Imani Uzuri, Josh Wilder, Harrison David Rivers, Korde Arrington Tuttle, Amy Evans, Craig “muMs” Grant, Laura Brienza, Angelica Chéri, James MacLindon, Natalia Naman, Bil Wright, Kevin R. Free, Drew Larimore, and several others. Reginald has received fellowships from New York Theatre Workshop and the Lark; was a member of the Actors Studio’s Playwrights and Directors Unit; has assistant directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally; and has served on the selection committees for several local and national fellowships and grants panels. He has lectured in directing at the National Theatre Institute and Point Park University, where he directed a lauded production of Charles Mee’s Big Love last season. Named “One of Top 10 People to Meet” by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Reginald has been profiled by Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Pittsburgh Today Live, The Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show, Soul Pitt Quarterly, and Stage Buddy. His directorial work has been hailed by The New York Times, Village Voice, Talkin’ Broadway, The Star Ledger, and other leading publications. Reginald is a proud graduate of Georgetown University and member of SDC. Upcoming work includes the world premiere production of Cori Thomas’ Citizens Market (City Theatre) and Ashman and Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors (University of Pittsburgh).
Pipeline (upcoming)
Dominique Morisseau | City Theatre
Citizens Market* (upcoming)
Cori Thomas | City Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors (upcoming)
Ashman and Menken | University of Pittsburgh
The Champion*
Amy Evans | Theatre Squared
Wild With Happy
Colman Domingo | City Theatre
Big Love
Charles Mee | Point Park University
Sunset Baby
Dominique Morisseau | TheatreWorks Hartford
2016 Young Playwrights Festival*
Various Writers | City Theatre
2015 Young Playwrights Festival*
Various Writers | City Theatre
Paradox of the Urban Cliché*
Craig muMs Grant | Wild Project
Lines in the Dust*
Nikkole Salter | Luna Stage
Mother’s Day*
Colin Drucker | NYC Fringe Festival
Seeds of Abraham*
Angelica Chéri | Billie Holiday Theatre
The Sweat*
Jon Spano | Variations Theater Group
Prison Play*
Archie Maddocks | New Light Theater Project
Master Harold…and the Boys
Athol Fugard | Luna Stage
Conviction*
Derek Turnbo | Voices Inside/Out
Gravity*
Josh Wilder | The Fire This Time Festival
Lorimer Street Station*
Kevin Armento | INTAR Theatre
Ruby Place Nest on the Ground*
Angelica Chéri | Pershing Square Signature Center
Turn this Motha Out*
Kevin R. Free | Harlem School of the Arts
You Can’t Die Here aka Not Normal*
Paul Notice | Culture Project
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry | The Gallery Players
The Lost Light*
Jackie Danziger | Center for Performance Research
Scared of Sarah*
Laura Brienza | LaMama First Floor Theatre
Amari’s Tomorrow*
Shamsuddin Abdul-Hamid | McCarter Theatre
The Body Washer
Rosemary Frisino Toohey | The Access Theatre
…And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi*
Marcus Gardley | Georgetown University
An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake* (upcoming)
Matt Schatz | Pittsburgh CLO/City Theatre
Amerikin (upcoming)
Chisa Hutchinson | City Theatre
And All the Dead Lie Down
Harrison David Rivers | City Theatre
Reluctant to Burn
Korde Arrington Tuttle | Lark Play Development Center
Citizens Market
Cori Thomas | City Theatre
Lilies Bloom
Josh Wilder | Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Theatre Institute
Forever Sunset
Tobias Forrest | City Theatre
Girl Shakes Loose
Zakiyyah Alexander & Imani Uzuri | Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Music Theatre Conference
The Champion
Amy Evans | Theatre Squared, BRIC Arts Media
Feeding the Dragon
Sharon Washington | City Theatre
Leftovers
Josh Wilder | Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference
To The Light
Bil Wright | Harlem Stage
The Human Court
Jessica Dickey | City Theatre
The Sting of White Roses
Angelica Chéri | The Fire This Time Festival
Gravity
Josh Wilder | The Fire This Time Festival
Leftovers
Josh Wilder | Rattlestick, Drama League, Alchemical
Dessalines
William Edgar Easton | New Brooklyn Theater
To The Light
Bil Wright | Ripley Grier
Lilies Bloom
Josh Wilder | Playwrights’ Center
The Three Es
Jason Aaron Goldberg | New York Theatre Workshop
The Stone Will Roll
Josh Wilder | New York Theatre Workshop
The Power Play
Susan Kathryn Hefti | New York Theatre Workshop
Ivory
Karima A. Robinson | Abingdon Theatre Company
Fireflies the Musical
Dmitry Koltunov | DR2/Lark Play Development Center
Old Love/New Love
Laura Brienza | Luna Stage
City Theatre
Artistic Producer, 2015-present
New York Theater Workshop
2050 Directing Fellow, 2013-2014
Lark Play Development Center
Inaugural Van Lier Fellow in Directing, 2011 – 2013
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2012
Co-Artistic Director, 2011 – 2012
McCarter Theatre Center
Directing and Producing Assistant, 2009 – 2010
* Denotes Premiere
Sunset Baby was named as one of the most Memorable Moments on Connecticut’s Stages in 2017! Check out the feature here.
“Sunset Baby at TheaterWorks was an excitable family drama with highly physicalized performers spouting revolutionary rhetoric. I thought it was the most provocative drama I saw all year.”
Reginald discusses The Champion with writer Amy Evans on KUAF Arts Beat!
Reginald discusses The Champion with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Check out the interview here!
Reginald will direct the world premiere of The Champion by Amy Evans at Theatre Squared in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Check out the announcement here.
Another great review for Wild with Happy from Burgh Vivant!
“Douglas’ directorial vision brings all the elements and timing together perfectly in a show that’s both fun filled and a joy to watch.”
Wild with Happy gets a rave review from the Pittsburgh in the Round!
Wild with Happy gets a rave review from the Pittsburgh Owl Scribe!
Wild with Happy gets a great review from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!
Celebrate Wild with Happy‘s fabulous opening night with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review!
Reginald previews Wild with Happy with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review!
Reginald discusses Wild with Happy with Sharon Eberson of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gives Big Love a great review! Cheers to the talented students!
Check out this preview of Point Park’s Big Love by Charles Mee.
Another great review for Sunset Baby at TheaterWorks Hartford. Check out the review here.
“ The canny director of the show, Reginald L. Douglas, has staged Sunset Baby within an inch of its life, in a tight and powerful 90 minute production….Director Reginald L. Douglas is able to expertly mine all the emotions and complexities in Sunset Baby, as well as drawing out such wonderful performances from his actors.”
More praise for Sunset Baby! Check out the review here.
“Director Reginald L. Douglas and his talented cast have [given] us a taut and dynamic production.”
Big praise for Sunset Baby! Check out the review here.
“Expertly directed by Reginald L. Douglas (this is his highly successful debut at TheaterWorks), the audience is able to suspend time and place and enter the lives of three complex and tormented characters.”
Broadway World raves about Sunset Baby at TheaterWorks Hartford. Check out the review here.
“Reginald L. Douglas’ direction is strong, coaxing out the raw emotion of the script while not losing the nuances of these very real people.”
Reginald will direct a reading of Forever Sunset by Tobias Forrest as part of the annual Kennedy Center Leadership Exchange in the Arts and Disability Conference. Check out the announcement here.
Reginald will direct Girl Shakes Loose, a new musical by Zakiyyah Alexander and Imani Uzuri, at the Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Music Theater Conference. The cast includes Broadway luminaries Christina Sajous, Kevin Mambo, and Laiona Michelle. Check out the announcement here!
Reginald is thrilled to direct Amy Evans’ The Champion at Theatre Squared, as part of the Arkansas New Play Festival, running June 17-26, 2016. Check out this special interview with Reginald about his process and love of new work.
Reginald is thrilled to announce the 2016-17 season of plays at City Theatre. This season, Reginald will direct Wild with Happy by Colman Domingo in Spring 2017. Check out the full line-up here!
Reginald was named “One of Top 10 People to Meet in 2016″ by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!
Reginald’s new position at City Theatre was featured in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review this fall. Read the full article here!
Reginald begins his tenure as Artistic Producer at City Theatre Company by directing a reading of Jessica Dickey’s new play The Human Court at City Theatre’s annual Momentum Festival of New Plays at Different Stages.
“City Theatre’s commitment to developing and producing new plays that challenge and engage diverse audiences is deeply inspiring,” says Mr. Douglas. “I am honored to join Tracy, the Board and staff in this important work, and look forward to uniting my passion and experience with City’s remarkable track record of artistic excellence.”
Read the full announcement here!
Reginald will direct Josh Wilder’s Leftovers at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, one of the highest-profile new-play development programs in the country! He will be in residence June 25-July 2, 2015.
Read the full announcement in Variety here!
“Verse melts into drama, and love story into Kafkaesque nightmare, in Paradox of the Urban Cliché, whose polished staging by Reginald L. Douglas is part of Poetic Theater Productions’s Poetic License festival…With a fine cast of four and a talented design team — particularly the video designer David Palmer and the sound designer Julian Evans — the new play simmers with anger about injustices both recent and historical.”
Read the full review here!
“Yet in a production that sings, above all else it is the direction that shines brightest. Reginald L. Douglas does incredible work, crafting a finely tuned world, and drawing great depths of emotion and finesse from his actors.”
Read the full review here!
“Paradox acquires potent power, with thoughtfully drawn characters and some head- spinning turns into philosophy. Grant alludes to great themes — power, race, justice — without grandstanding, and he keeps the focus on the inner self in the inner city.”
Read the full review here!
“Director Reginald L. Douglas crafts a space that is immediate and unflinching. The seamless transitions from past to present and the actors’ groundedness in their bodies and voices allow the playwright’s words to blaze across the audience, holding their attention on a hair pin. His words are ingeniously singular and personal.”
Read the full review here!
Reginald is thrilled be directing Paradox of the Urban Cliché by the brilliant Craig ‘muMs’ Grant. Filled with passionate grit, rhythmic hip-hop poetry, and the spirit of recent events of Ferguson and New York City, the play shines a light on the hope and tragedy of inner-city life with truth and fire. Produced by Poetic Theater Productions, the show stars Clinton Lowe, Mike Carlsen, Eboni Flowers, and W. Tre Davis. Design by Paul Tate DePoo II (scenic), Brad Peterson (lights and video), Liene Dobraja (costumes), Julian Evans (sound), and Travis Bell (props). The production runs February 5-22 at The Wild Project.
Read the press release here!
The Star Ledger names Master Harold…and the boys one of the Top 10 Shows of 2014!
“Athol Fugard’s play about coming of age in apartheid-era South Africa received a lively and ultimately wrenching showing in West Orange in a perceptive production directed by Reginald L. Douglas. Once again, the theater showcased actors who may not have had the celebrity value of those playing other local houses, but who showed ample skill and fit their roles perfectly.”
Read the article here!
“This is a play that must be seen, as much for its global relevance as for its local resonance. This is a masterful work that provokes thought while acknowledging past change and encouraging future action. We draw lines in the dust, but the lines and the dust both change.”
Read the full review here!
“Salter provides pointed insight into the subject, and her thoughtfully drawn female characters carry it compellingly to its conclusion. Reginald L. Douglas offers sure-handed direction.”
Read the Star Ledger’s review here!
“This a beautifully written, powerful, exciting, thought-provoking play impressively directed (Reginald L. Douglas) and performed by three exceptional actors (Erin Cherry, Rick Delaney and Dorcas Sowunmi). This closeness and the power of these performances added to the relevant emotional material takes the viewer (at least this viewer) beyond a mere theatrical presentation to almost active participation, in short, you forget this is a play and almost experience it as reality.”
Check out the review here!
“Director Reginald L. Douglas employs just the right directorial touch to keep the drama at an appropriate tension while avoiding histrionics. Thus, instead of being a polemic against residency fraud, Lines in the Dust becomes a personal story of three strivers, all of whom are seeking to arrive at (or in the case of Mike, to maintain) success. Luna Stage is to be commended for commissioning plays from young playwrights and giving them polished productions. Once again, the company and playwright have given us riveting, entertaining, illuminating and thought-provoking theater.”
Check out the review here!
“Colin Drucker’s fine script, well acted by a fine ensemble nimbly guided by director Reginald L. Douglas, comes alive at the New York International Fringe Festival…The brilliant writing is matched by superb acting and direction.”
Check out the review here!
“Drucker has a talent for witty repartee and this stellar ensemble (under the stalwart direction of Reginald L. Douglas) knows how to sell it. All of the relationships feel real and specific. We get to know (and even enjoy) this idiosyncratic clan with a penchant for verbal barbs tempered with a lot of love…or so it seems. Your eyes will be glued to the stage as you watch this delicate tapestry of a modern family unravel over the course of two hours.”
Check out the rave review here!
“Deeper than the plot is a play about acceptance and what limits we as people put onto our relationships. It’s a play about learning to love yourself and deciding who you are.”
Reginald shared his thoughts on directing Mother’s Day with StageBuddy.com. Check out the full interview here!
Reginald is thrilled to be directing the reading of Dessalines by William Edgar Easton, a play about the 1893 slave rebellion in Haiti, for this very unique and important play series! Come see it on Sunday, July 27th!
Check out the New York Times feature on the series here!
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