Doug is a two-time O’Neill Semi-Finalist (Fable and Just A Rumor), Semi-Finalist for Barrington Stage Company's Burman New Play Award, Normal Avenue’s New American Play Series, and Campfire Theatre Festival (Phillie’s Trilogy), Broadway World Nominee for Best New Off-Off Broadway Play (Goddess Of The Hunt), Semi-Finalist for B Street Theatre’s New Comedy Festival (Goddess Of The Hunt), and Semi-Finalist for We Screenplay’s Diverse Voices Competition (The Fierce Urgency Of Now). His short plays Mrs. Platte and Shitty Shitty Bang Bang were both Finalists in the Queens Short Play Festival at the Secret Theatre.

In addition, he has won Fresh Fruit Awards of Distinction for Outstanding Play (The Fierce Urgency Of Now) and Outstanding Production (Fierce… and Phillie’s Trilogy) as well as the Inaugural Scrap Mettle Arts Emerging Playwrights Competition (Phillie's Trilogy.)

Doug is currently an advisory board member for All Out Arts. His work has been seen in New York, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg (FL), Seattle, New Jersey, Connecticut, and London, and has been developed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, at Davenport Theatricals, and at ESPA/Primary Stages in New York 

A member of the Dramatists Guild, his work has been published by Next Stage Press and the Smith & Krauss Anthology of The Best Ten Minute Plays / 2022. and Best Men's and Women's Monologues / 2025.