Doug Finlayson (Faculty)Doug will be teaching: Acting for Film College Audition Workshop at the following locations: Webster University Bio Doug has been the Head of Directing at Webster University since 1998. He won the 2008 Kevin Kline Award for Best Director of a Play for Kindertransport which he directed at the New Jewish Theatre . Other work for NJT includes The Last Seder, Via Dolorosa, Lebensraum and Miklat. Other directing projects include Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (with Jef Awada) at St. Louis Shakepeare, How the Other Half Loves at Northern Fort Theatre in Aberdeen, SD, Aca Y Alla at the Evidence Room in Los Angeles, Resident Alien at Nebraska Repertory, The Philadelphia Story and Inspecting Carol at the Black Hills Playhouse, Art at the Ozark Actor's Theatre, The Bremen Town Musicians for The Imaginary Theatre Company, and Death of a Salesman at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. Doug has directed around the country for Court Theatre, Chico CA, Evidence Room, Los Angles, CA, Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, CO, Belfry Theatre, Lake Geneva, WI, New American Theatre, Rockford IL, Madison Rep, Madison WI, and Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Normal, IL. Doug started his career in Chicago where his credits include The Ice-Fishing Play and Between East and West for the Next Theatre Company, Pastel Refugees and The Butter and Egg Man at Northlight Theatre, and Execution of Justice and Nebraska at Bailiwick Repertory. From 1983-88, he served as Associate Artistic Director to Robert Falls and Richard E.T. White at Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, where he directed Painting Churches, The Immigrant, 'Night Mother, Hunting Cockroaches and Circe & Bravo.
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