Experience

Atlas Performing Arts Center

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Aug 2014 - Present

  As Executive Director of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Doug leads the strategy and operations to fulfill the Atlas’ mission of bringing people together through the arts to share and celebrate a range of artistic expressions and traditions. Doug leads a team of over 50 full and part-time staff who welcome 1,000 artists per year to the 59,000 square foot Atlas Performing Arts Center.Doug has been a part of the Atlas Performing Arts Center since its beginning – he was part of the redevelopment team and helped plan Joy of Motion Dance Center’s flagship studios at the Atlas that opened in 2005. His focus on building partnerships, developing arts education programs, earned revenue, and contributed support have helped the Atlas remain an artistic and cultural anchor in the H Street Northeast neighborhood that attracts 100,000 patrons per year from the surrounding community and beyond.Donate to the Atlas: http://atlasarts.org/get-involved/individual-support/



Joy of Motion Dance Center

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • 1989 - Jul 2014

  Doug’s ability to leverage Joy of Motion’s “Dance is for Everyone” mission resulted in growing the organization from a one-room studio to a financially strong performing arts organization with three locations serving tens of thousands of children and adults every year. Under Doug’s leadership, Joy of Motion reached over 500 District of Columbia school children per week with free classes at 10 partner schools and provided scholarships for studio classes to more than 70 youth students during the 2013-14 school year.