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Douglas Rintoul Douglas Rintoul Douglas Rintoul is a British theatre director and playwright. He is the artistic director of The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, he founded and ran the national touring company Transport (2017 - 2017) and is a longstanding associate of Complicite. Douglas was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk and grew up in Canterbury and Colchester. He read Drama & Theatre Arts at The University of Birmingham. He won a Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme bursary to train at Salisbury Playhouse, was selected for the Royal National Theatre Studio Young Director's Programme and won an Esmeé Fairbairn Regional Theatre Initiative Award.