ACTOR

Doug Kreeger is an award-winning actor and singer whose performance work spans Broadway, Off-Broadway, national and international tours, and concert appearances at Carnegie Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall. He is known for roles that blend vocal precision with psychological complexity, specializing in antagonists and antiheroes who hold contradiction, shame, desire, and danger in the same breath.

On Broadway, Doug played Jean Prouvaire in the revival of Les Misérables. Off-Broadway, he originated the roles of Ian in Rooms: A Rock Romance (New World Stages) and Richard Loeb in Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story (York Theatre), a show that has since been produced worldwide over 200 times, including London’s West End and a long-running version in South Korea. Doug also starred as Jordan in Departure Lounge (The Public Theater) and appeared in Yank! and Judas & Me at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

In Los Angeles, Doug is a longtime company member of For The Record Live, appearing as Jake in Scorsese: American Crime Requiem and as Harry in Love Actually Live at the Wallis Annenberg Center, as well as in Dear John Hughes and The Brat Pack. Regionally, he has performed at Signature Theatre (alongside Chita Rivera in Kander & Ebb’s The Visit and later in Brother Russia), Yale Repertory Theatre (Pop!), Pittsburgh CLO (Jesus Christ Superstar), the Old Globe, and others. Internationally, he toured as Danny Zuko in Grease and as Berger in Hair.

Doug made his Carnegie Hall debut as Ignis in Eric Whitacre’s opera Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings, later performing the work at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Chicago’s Roosevelt Auditorium Theatre. His collaborators across musical theatre, opera, and concert performance include John Kander, Chita Rivera, Ann Reinking, Lea Salonga, Michael Arden, Adam Lambert, Trevor Nunn, and John Caird.

Doug is a two-time Helen Hayes Award nominee, an Ovation Award nominee, and a two-time Po‘okela Award winner. He appears on multiple original cast recordings, including Rooms: A Rock Romance, Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, and the European tour recording of Hair, and is a frequent topic of conversation in the best-selling, non-fiction novel Thrill Maker: The Story of My Musical THRILL ME by Stephen Dolginoff. 

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Doug trained at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (BFA), studied Shakespeare performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and received his MFA in Performance Pedagogy from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.