Doug Lockwood has directed plays and musicals in New York City and in the Boston area since moving back east in the late 90s. A founding member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, he has helmed site-specific productions of Cymbeline and Hamlet for the company, as well as taking on King Lear and Middletown by Will Eno.

His production of Chesapeake by Lee Blessing received the Elliot Norton Award for Best Solo Performance for Georgia Lyman in 2012. His Hamlet, staged in the Church of the Covenant sanctuary, made the list of Arts Fuse’s Best Stage Production of 2016. Omar Robinson as Hamlet and Marianna Bassham as Gertrude/Gravedigger, also received numerous acting nominations for that production.

Lockwood’s recent production of The Glass Menagerie at Gloucester Stage Company, was the Critics’ Choice of The Boston Globe for the summer of 2025.

Doug Lockwood is a Professor of Theatre at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he has been teaching full-time since 2004. Some directing highlights there include the 2015 devised musical, Coolsville, which was inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones. At the Conservatory, he has also directed the musical The Cradle Will Rock and Chekhov’s Three Sisters among others.

Lockwood has taught Shakespeare workshops in Mexico City at Ceu Voz and locally for Wheelock Family Theatre.

With Actors’ Shakespeare Project, he has taught Shakespeare for Non-Professionals, and he has served on the Board of Directors and been an Artistic Associate for the Company.

Doug Lockwood holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Colorado in Boulder and an MFA in Acting from the University of Washington, under the direction of Steve Pearson.