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Doug Rowell with actor Sean Bean at the 2016 Golden Globes
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Born | Douglas Edward Rowell March 12, 1974 Berkeley, California |
Occupation | Director Producer |
Nationality | American |
Education | Academy of Art University (BFA) |
Notable works |
All the Way to the Ocean Community HarmonQuest High School USA! |
Douglas Edward Rowell, better known as Doug Rowell (born March 12, 1974) is an American Animation Director and Producer. He is best known for his work as director of eight episodes and producer of two on an American animated series High School USA! produced by Friends Night and Animation Domination High-Def Studios, starring Vincent Kartheiser, T.J. Miller, Mandy Moore, Zosia Mamet and Dino Stamatopoulos, which was released in 2013 creating controversy with an FCC ban of one of its episodes . The program holds a TV-MA rating for explicit language (L) and sexual content (S), making it the first show on Fox to be given such a rating since the short-lived 1990s show Action. However, most reruns of this show are rated TV-14 for suggestive dialogue (D), sexual content (S), offensive language (L), and/or graphic violence (V).
Douglas Edward Rowell was born in Berkeley, California located in Alameda County in 1974. He attended Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. During his studies, Doug worked on the student run CG short film Freeware, the 2001 winner of the Sundance On-Line Film Festival Viewers Award.