Douglas Rintoul


Douglas Rintoul is a British theatre director and playwright.
He is currently the artistic director of The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, he founded and ran the national touring company and is a longstanding associate of Complicite.
Douglas was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk and grew up in Canterbury and Colchester. He read Drama & Theatre Arts at The University of Birmingham.
He won a bursary to train at Salisbury Playhouse, was selected for the Royal National Theatre Studio Young Directors' Programme and won an Esmeé Fairbairn Regional Theatre Initiative Award. During his tenure as Artistic Director of the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch the organisation won the London Theatre of the Year Stage Award 2020. He is listed in
His script for his theatre production Elegy won a Royal National Theatre Foundation Playwright's Award. He has received 19 Off West End Award nominations for his productions.