BIO

Douglas Wood is currently a working WGA writer, development executive, producer and script doctor.

He has been Vice President of Animation Production and Creative Affairs for Universal, Warner Bros. and Turner Pictures where he oversaw the script development and production of such films as the Annie Award-winning IRON GIANT and CATS DON’T DANCE as well as the live-action/animated feature, OSMOSIS JONES with Bill Murray and Chris Rock. Wood is currently working with Animation Lab, Israel's first animated feature film studio, as Director and Executive Producer for the studio's debut feature, THE WILD BUNCH.

Wood began his executive career at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment where he began as an in-house Story Analyst, reading and evaluating hundreds of screenplays.

Within a year Wood was promoted to Director of Animation where he developed the feature films, BALTO and WE’RE BACK! and was the creative executive for the Emmy-winning Warner Bros. television series, TINY TOON ADVENTURES and ANIMANIACS for which he was also Story Editor. He also developed the prime-time CBS Christmas special, A WISH FOR WINGS THAT WORK based on the characters of Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist, Berkeley Breathed of Bloom County fame.

While at Amblin, Wood was a mentor in the acclaimed Chesterfield Project in which he guided screenwriters through the screenwriting process.

After ten years as an executive, Douglas Wood returned to his passion for writing. He developed-for-television the Playhouse Disney series, LITTLE EINSTEINS, and also wrote for the show which currently airs on the Disney Channel. The series is based on the successful line of Baby Einstein products. He has also written for the Playhouse Disney series HANDY MANNY and JOHNNY AND THE SPRITES.

Wood was the Story Editor for the third season of the popular Playhouse Disney series, JOJO’S CIRCUS for which he’s written numerous episodes and prime-time specials. He also wrote the musical stge show for Playhouse Live! at Disney's California Adventure Theme Park which features MICKEY'S PLAYHOUSE, LITTLE EINSTEINS, MY FRIENDS TIGGER AND POOH, and HANDY MANNY.

Wood wrote the DVD animated feature, CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, starring Frankie Muniz, William H. Macy, Lacey Chabert and Felicity Huffman, based on the best-selling book series. Wood also wrote the feature-length Warner Bros. animated mystery, SCOOBY-DOO AND THE MONSTER OF MEXICO, available on DVD at Netflix and most video stores.

The animated series, MAMA MIRABELLE'S HOME MOVIES which Wood created for National Geographic is now airing on PBS. Wood also is the author of WHEN MAMA MIRABELLE GETS HOME, the children's book published by National Geographic/Random House, which is a companion to the series.

Wood’s live-action screenplay, AS IS, a comedy-drama set in the funky subculture of garage sales and flea markets, has been optioned by Colleen Camp Productions and indy producer Holly Wiersma.

Prior to his executive career, Wood was an actor and writer. He wrote and performed original material as a member of Chicago’s famed comedy troupe, SECOND CITY.

Following Second City, Wood became one-half of the comedy duo, the FINE LINE which performed their incisive sketches on male-female relationships at comedy clubs and theatres all across the country including The Improv, The Comedy Store and The Playboy Clubs as well as two appearances on the MERV GRIFFIN SHOW.

This led to a position as staff writer and series regular on the MOTOWN REVUE WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON, a musical/comedy series of NBC.

The FINE LINE was nominated for an Emmy award for Best Comedy Special for Cable, and Wood received Outstanding Actor awards from both Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Committee and Dramalogue for the Equity stage productions in Chicago and Los Angeles.

Wood’s regional acting includes roles in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! with John Malkovich, Joan Allen, John Mahoney and Gary Cole; the Jefferson award-winning Midwest premiere of CLASS ENEMY for the Next Theatre Company; and the Midwest premiere of the Pulitzer prize-winning drama, THE SHADOW BOX at Chicago’s Forum Theatre.

Wood has conducted specialized improvisation workshops for artists at California Institute of the Arts, Bezalal Academy of Arts and Design at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as for the CBS Diversity Institute’s Writers Mentoring Program. He currently volunteers his time, conducting improvisation workshops for senior citizens at the Motion Picture and Television Fund (the “Old Actor’s Home”).

Wood has been on numerous panels and is a frequent lecturer at California State University – Northridge.

Douglas Wood is a current member of WGA-W, SAG, AFTRA, AEA and ASCAP.