Doug Lockwood

I encourage my students to play for the win!  

Doug Lockwood joined the Conservatory in 2004 and is a professor of theater. Lockwood is a founding member of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, where he has performed roles in Pride and Prejudice, Richard II, Measure for Measure, King Lear (also at La MaMa, New York City), The Winter’s Tale, Othello, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, and Richard III. Also for the company, he has directed Hamlet, Middletown, Cymbeline, and the 2019 production of King Lear.

Additional Boston acting credits include Twelfth Night, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Waverly Gallery, and Art (New Repertory Theatre); Pericles (ART); The Cherry Orchard (Nora Theatre Company); Pippi Longstocking, Snow White, and Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Wheelock Family Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); and Carnival (Gloucester Stage Company). Additional Boston directing credits include Chesapeake (New Repertory Theatre); Auld Lang Syne (Gloucester Stage Company); and for Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Landscape of the Body, The Beckett Bash, Bent, Cloud 9, Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical), Machinal, After Hours, Twelfth Night, and Coolsville. New York acting credits include The Fever by Wallace Shawn (directed by Ken Rus Schmoll), A Tale of Two Cities (directed by Will Pomerantz), and The Hussy Chronicles (written and directed by Kenny Finkle).

Lockwood has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Edmonton Fringe. Nationally, he has performed at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre.

He is a graduate of the professional actor training program at the University of Washington, where he studied under the direction of Steve Pearson. He received his BFA in theater from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Highlights

• Actors’ Shakespeare Project founding member (since 2004), with upcoming roles in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom)
• King Lear with Alvin Epstein in Boston and at LaMama in New York City (2006)
• Interviewed Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones (2021)
• Performed twice at the Edinburgh Festival

Professional Awards and Recognitions

• Received Faculty Fellowship Grant in 2021 to produce and perform Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing, directed by Boston Conservatory alum Connor Berkompas (BFA '20) for Nervous Theatre
• Directed actor Georgia Lyman in the one-person show Chesapeake, which received the Elliot Norton Award for Best Solo Show in 2013
• Performed in all-male production of Titus Andronicus, which received the 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Best Director

Recent Engagements

• As You Like It (Actors' Shakespeare Project, 2023)—Actor
• King Lear (Actors' Shakespeare Project, 2019)—Director
• Pride and Prejudice (Actors' Shakespeare Project, 2019)—Actor
• Hamlet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, 2017)—Director
• Richard II (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, 2016)—Title role
• Coolsville, a musical based on the songs of Rickie Lee Jones (Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 2015)—Creator
• Middletown (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, 2013)—Director
• The Chain, a short film based on a short story by Tobias Wolff (2013)—Lead role