Doug Scholz-Carlson is an actor, director, and fight choreographer and was the first intimacy director at the Metropolitan Opera. At the Met, he was Intimacy Director for Fire Shut Up in my Bones, Dead Man Walking, Medea, Hamlet, Rigoletto, Eurydice, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Carlo and Rosenkavalier and assistant director for Medea, Dead Man Walking and Fire Shut Up in my Bones. Doug is Artistic Director of Great River Shakespeare Festival where he has directed and acted in numerous productions over 20 years including Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, As You Like It, The African Company Presents Richard III, Venus in Fur and Shakespeare in Love. Opera stage directing credits include Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Austin Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Portland Opera, Madison Opera, and Palm Beach Opera. Certified by Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, he has directed intimacy at companies including the Minnesota Opera, San Diego Opera, San Antonio Opera and the Guthrie Theater and taught workshops on intimacy for organizations including Julliard, the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program, Minnesota Opera’s Resident Artist Program, Opera America, and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Doug’s fight choreography has appeared at theaters including The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Utah Opera, The Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theater Company, Opera Montreal, Michigan Opera Theater, Minnesota Opera and the Seattle Police Department, and were featured in the world premiers of the operas The Grapes of Wrath and Silent Night. Doug lives in Minneapolis and holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BA from St. Olaf College.