Doug is the most exciting of the new breed of contemporary British “Mind Readers” or “Psychological Entertainers” but is probably best marked out as being the only one with a sense of humour.
He has been described by TimeOut magazine as “the UK’s best kept entertainment secret”
Doug is not a magician, clairvoyant or a hypnotist, everything he does is achieved though application of psychological principles, suggestion techniques, misdirection, understanding the human mind, and “cheating and lying”.
Having worked as an Advertising Psychologist for many years, Doug decided to “use his powers for good instead of evil” and now employs his persuasion skills to entertain rather than sell beans
He has had 14 night sell-out runs of public shows at both London's Barons Court Theatre, and the Jermyn Street Theatre, Piccadilly smashing the former venue's seventeen year box office record in the process.
TimeOut magazine were kind enough to describe his show as - “Miraculous”.
Having seen Doug’s show on many occasions from the wings Ron Phillips, the Artistic Director of The Baron’s Court Theatre felt he had finally discovered Doug’s secret and stated his theory as follows - “This man reads minds”.
A highlight in Doug’s International TV career was being chosen by the BBC to “see in” the New Year with Claire Balding and Natasha Kaplinski, performing live to 9.5 million viewers on the BBC ONE New Years Live Show.
Claire was moved to say on air that that Doug was “Incredible, I don’t know how you are doing what you are doing, but you do it incredibly well”.
Richard Woolfe, Station Head of SKY ONE’s comment on Doug’s work suggests he was a little lost for words as well as very impressed - “F**king Hell!!. How did you do that?”
Robert Jensen, Holland’s most famous and favourite TV chat show host, is a huge fan of Doug and recently said: “I don’t know how you did that, I won’t sleep for about two days. You are the best I’ve ever seen”.
One of Doug’s appearances on Robert’s chat show “Jensen!“ was voted the “Best TV moment on Dutch TV in September 2007” by the readers of Dutch leading quality daily newspaper “Volkskrant”
"Amazing" Natasha Kaplinski, BBC TV Presenter
“Get the f**k out of my head you freak!” Zane Lowe
You should be staked through the heart! – Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters
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Current projects:
Doug is directing & consulting for the 2011 Edinburgh show for a two time Perrier Award winning comedian.
A short tour of Japan is being planned for early 2011.
7:00pm 13th May 2010
The Attic @ Benson Blakes
St John’s St
Bury St Edmunds
Tickets £7.50 Adv/£8.50 door
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