Douglas Rintoul
Director
Douglas is Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. He was previously Artistic Director of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Founder and Artistic Director of the national touring company Transport, and an Associate Director of Complicité. Born in Bury St Edmunds and raised in Colchester, Douglas read Drama at the University of Birmingham, trained on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme at Salisbury Playhouse, and attended the National Theatre Studio’s Young Directors’ Programme.
Directing credits include As You Like It (National Theatre Public Acts, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Brief Encounter (New Wolsey Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Dardanus (English Touring Opera), Footloose (New Wolsey Theatre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Made in Dagenham (New Wolsey Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Noises Off (Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, New Wolsey Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Theatre by the Lake), Sleeping Beauty (New Wolsey Theatre), The Hired Man (Hull Truck Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole The Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch).
Douglas is Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. He was previously Artistic Director of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Founder and Artistic Director of the national touring company Transport, and an Associate Director of Complicité. Born in Bury St Edmunds and raised in Colchester, Douglas read Drama at the University of Birmingham, trained on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme at Salisbury Playhouse, and attended the National Theatre Studio’s Young Directors’ Programme.
Directing credits include As You Like It (National Theatre Public Acts, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Brief Encounter (New Wolsey Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Dardanus (English Touring Opera), Footloose (New Wolsey Theatre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Made in Dagenham (New Wolsey Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Noises Off (Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, New Wolsey Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Theatre by the Lake), Sleeping Beauty (New Wolsey Theatre), The Hired Man (Hull Truck Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole The Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch).