Douglas Taurel has been nominated for the Amnesty International and Innovative Theater Awards. He’s appeared in numerous television shows, including The Affair, Mr. Robot, The Americans, Blue Bloods, Person of Interest, The Following, Damages, NYC 22, Believe, and Nurse Jackie.
He has appeared in numerous films, including The Gabby Petito Story (Directed by Thora Birch), The Cobbler (starring Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman, directed by Tom McCarthy), The Kindergarten Teacher (starring Maggie Gyllenhall, directed by Sara Colangelo), and The Delivery at the HBO Latin Films Festival.
The Library of Congress commissioned Taurel to write and perform his second solo show,
An American Soldier’s Journey Home. It commemorates the ending of the First World War and tells the story of Irving Greenwald, a soldier in the 308 Regiment and part of the Lost Battalion. He performed the play twice at the Library of Congress on Veterans Day and Memorial Day in 2017.
He’s recently finished filming his TV Series Landing Home, which he wrote and directed. It tells the story of a Veteran having a hard time adjusting out of the Military. He was nominated for Best Actor and Best First Time Director at the GI Film Festival and won for Best Feature. It also won Best Drama at the Wings of Honor Film Festival.
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MISSION STATEMENT
My goal with The American Soldier has never been political but to sincerely thank our veterans and their families for their sacrifice and service to our nation. To raise awareness of the struggles Veterans and Military families face when they either come home from war, transition out of the military, and, of course, the invisible wounds of PTS. Most importantly, I want to help those who have no connection to the military better understand what service to our nation sincerely means.
I guess the goal since I first performed the play in 2015 for eight people in the Lower East Side of Manhattan has been to pull back the curtain to war and give meaning to the term we throw around so frivolously, “Thank you for your service.”
I sincerely hope audiences will go away with a deeper appreciation of the tremendous sacrifice our servicemen, servicewomen, and their families have made for our country.
Did I serve? No, I have never served in the military, but my family has served. My sister retired as an Srgt. in the Army; a nephew became a Marine, and two nieces are in the National Guard.
