A writer and director, Doug founded Ghost River Theatre in 1999, with the intention of creating new Canadian performance theatre that combined music, storytelling, and collaboration. Recent projects include Confessions of a Paperboy, Volume 1. While My Mother Lay Dreaming (Co-production with Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, and Mesa, which has become the company's most successful play. Winning Betty Mitchell and Sterling Awards, Mesa has toured the U.K., the Great Lakes and cottage country in southern Ontario, the National Arts Centre, Sunshine Theatre in Kelowna, Presentation House Theatre, Vancouver, The Belfrey Theatre in Victoria, B.C.