Charles Douglas
Charles Douglas is an award-winning director who specialises in the creation and capture of performances for interactive media. He is Head of Screen & Audio Training at LAMDA.
Charles has guided actors in crafting performances celebrated by BAFTA, The Game Awards, The Golden Joystick Awards, The D.I.C.E. Awards, and millions of fans around the world. His work has been profiled by The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, The Washington Post, PC Gamer, and other leading publications. Charles was a Performance Director on Larian Studios' Baldur's Gate 3, winner of every major Game of the Year award and five BAFTA Games Awards. Other credits include South of Midnight (Compulsion Games), Resident Evil 4 (Capcom), New World: Aeternum (Amazon Games), New Tales from the Borderlands (Gearbox), Redemption Reapers (Adglobe), and collaborations with beingAI, Meta, and Invoke Studios (Wizards of the Coast). As Shoot Master of Beyond Capture Studios' flagship Montreal stage, Charles produced and facilitated performance capture shoots for industry-leading clients.
Charles trained as an actor at Sheridan College before studying Michael Chekhov technique around the world. His acting credits include leading several productions for the National Arts Centre of Canada's English Theatre company and playing Coryphaeus in Double Eye Studios' Venice and SXSW award-winning XR experience Finding Pandora X. Charles holds a Bachelor of Education degree from Queen's University and an MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. While at Central, Charles wrote the first thesis on actor movement and the medium of performance capture. He received a Chevening Award for his work and has shared research into the future of storytelling at conferences including the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts' Digital Conference, the Performance and XR Conference, and CATR-SQET's Joint Conference. Charles has taught at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University for the Creative Arts, University of the Arts London, Vancouver Film School, and Simon Fraser University.
