Doug Spearman
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| Born | September 3, 1962 |
Doug Spearman (born September 3, 1962 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor.[1] His career highlights include work on such television shows as Star Trek Voyager, The Drew Carey Show, The Hughleys, Charmed, Gideon's Crossing, MAD TV, Girlfriends and Profiler.
Spearman grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland[1] and attended Indiana University.[2] He has starred in such productions as the American premiere of the AIDS drama, The Ice Pick, The Men's Room, Moscow, The Bullpen Boys, A Few Good Men, and the world premiere of South Coast Repertory's production of the The Hollow Lands. Doug co-starred in the motion picture Cradle 2 the Grave with Jet Li and DMX and Any Day Now with Alan Cumming and Frances Fisher.
On television Doug starred as Professor Chance Counter in the ground breaking television series Noah's Arc on LOGO and the feature film of the same name.
Doug also worked as a writer/producer/director and Creative Director at ABC, CBS, NBC, UPN, Soapnet, BET, LOGO, and E! Entertainment Television creating more than two thousand television promos and multi-platform ad campaigns and marketing strategies in his career.
In 2006, Doug created a television and film development and production company called The Ogden Group Entertainment. That year Doug also produced and directed his first documentary – Aretha on the life of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin which aired in January 2007. In 2009 the Director’s Guild of America commissioned Doug to write a film entitled Pirates 3.0. The film was produced Randal Kleiser and directed by Jeremy Kagan and shot entirely on the lot at Warner Brothers. Doug is currently co-writing and directing the web-series soap parody Santa Juanita.
Doug has been honored with many awards including a Leadership Award by the Human Rights Campaign which was presented before the United States Senate, The Connie Norman Award from C.S.W. for outstanding achievement in fostering racial, ethnic, religious and gender unity within the LGBT community, The Advocacy Award from the United Teachers Association and an Image Award from the Jordan Rustin Coalition in Los Angeles.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 O'Bryan, Will (2007-03-15), "Shining in the Spotlight", Metro Weekly, retrieved 2007-09-20
- ↑ Boykin, Keith (2006-09-20), "The Education of Doug Spearman", KeithBoykin.com, retrieved 2007-09-20