Douglas Rintoul is a British theatre director and playwright.
He is the artistic director of The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch and runs the national touring company Transport 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.
His script for his theatre production Elegy won a Royal National Theatre Foundation Playwright's Award. His devised production 1001 Nights for the Unicorn Theatre was nominated for the Off West End Award for Best Production for Young People.