Douglas Wood (writer)

History

Douglas Wood was born in Chicago, United States where he acted in productions at The Next Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, The Forum Theatre and The Second City among others. He formed a comedy duo with Cheryl Rhoads entitled The Fine Line, playing comedy clubs and theatres in Chicago and later L.A., including The Improv and The Comedy Store. The Fine Line's vignettes on human relationships, entitled "An Evening with the Fine Line", ran for nine months in Chicago at the Ruth Page Theater. Upon arriving in L.A., Wood and Rhoads were spotted and signed by the William Morris Agency and they soon performed (twice) on The Merv Griffin Show. This led to Wood becoming a series regular and staff writer on the NBC variety series, The Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson. Wood has worked as the creative executive for the Annie award winning films The Iron Giant and Cats Don't Dance. He also served as the creative executive for the Emmy Award winning TV series Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. Wood has created two successful animated television series: Little Einsteins for Disney and Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies for National Geographic (for which he also authored the children's book, When Mama Mirabelle Comes Home.) In addition to his work for Disney, he has written television shows for children at Nickelodeon, PBS, Discovery Kids, the BBC, Fremantle Media, Netflix, Cirque du Soleil, Mattel, DHX and more. At the Motion Picture and Television Fund he volunteers his services instructing senior citizens on the craft of Improvisation. In 2011, Wood directed, produced (with Jennifer Clymer), and wrote (with Maureen Kelly) a live-action short, Hi, Lillian which stars veteran actor, Pat Crawford Brown, an improv student of Wood's at the MPTV Fund. The film has won the Audience Award for Best Short at three film festivals: Dances With Films 15, Prescott Film Festival, 2012 and the 12th Annual Valley Film Festival. Wood also won an award for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the Prescott Film Festival. Hi, Lillian is an Official Selection at the AWEsome Film Festival in San Jose, CA, the Reel Recovery Festivals in L.A., NY, American Independent Film Festival, the Legacy Film Festival in San Francisco and the Seoul International Senior Film Festival in Seoul, Korea. In 2013 Wood wrote, directed and executive produced the short film Entanglement, which received a Best Short Award at the Independent Film Quarterly Film Festival in 2014. The film also won an Award of Merit from the Best Shorts Competition, 2014 and was an Official Selection at the Dances With Films Festival in Hollywood and the First Glance Festival - L.A.

Amblin Entertainment

During his time as an executive at Amblin, Wood helped develop and was the creative executive for the following works:

Warner Bros./Turner

Wood worked on the following animations:

Disney

Wood was involved with the following projects:

Nickelodeon

National Geographic

Wood was involved with the following projects for National Geographic:

NBCUniversal/Kids Sprout

Discovery Kids

Skechers Entertainment

BBC and Fremantle Media Enterprises

The Hub

HIT Entertainment

Amazon

Winner of Annie Award, Best Preschool Series; Winner of five Emmy Awards including Best Preschool Series.

Netflix/Cirque Du Soleil

Mattel, Inc./DHX

Miscellaneous