Meet Douglas E. Hughes

Playwright | Actor | Author

I’ve been a professional actor since 1979.

In that time, I’ve worked in theatres across Canada and in the U.S. I spent thirteen seasons as a member of the acting ensemble at the Shaw Festival, and another three at the Stratford Festival. I’ve also worked extensively in TV, film and voice-over.

For the past 30+ years, I’ve also been a playwright.

To date, my writing partner Marcia Kash and I have penned six plays together, the first five of which (Who’s Under Where?, A Party to Murder, Too Many Cooks, Jack of Diamonds [which Marcia and I have since converted into a screenplay] and Something Fishy) have all been published by Concord Entertainment. They’ve had over 300 productions in sixteen countries around the world, and have been translated into ten languages.

Our sixth play, Deadline, premiered at the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Ohio in November of 2022, and is being published by Broadway Licensing.

On my own, I’ve written a one-act comedy entitled Taken for Granted, as well as three screenplays: Hearing Trouble, Star Struck and A Different Corner. I’ve also written two novels, the comedy-thriller The Poor Player, and its sequel, The Shaming of the True. At present, Marcia and I are hard at work on our seventh play, a psychological thriller called Succour.
“Hughes injected a passion and sense of determination into his character that made the little hairs on the back of the head stand straight up.”
“The highlight of the show, however, is Douglas E. Hughes as the first hunter – strong, slow, unruffled, utterly impervious to the self-important airs of his self-proclaimed superiors.”
Douglas E. Hughes is a magnificent Alfie and reason enough to go see this production.  His craggy face houses the saddest of eyes and the most hopeful of smiles.  The combination is devastating.