Doug Monroe is a writer, actor, and comedian based in Athens, Georgia. He has won state, regional, and national awards for his work as a reporter, editor, and columnist with United Press International, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, and Atlanta Magazine. Doug also was a speechwriter for IBM and vice president of a public relations agency. In 2007, he was selected as a New York City Teaching Fellow. He taught at I.S. 228 in Gravesend, Brooklyn for four years. He also taught as an adjunct professor for Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus and the University of Georgia and was a lecturer at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. His recent stage roles at On Stage Walton were Mr. Martini in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and the judge in "To Kill a Mockingbird."" He's made a number of standup appearances recently, including the Morton Theatre in Athens and On Stage Walton’s Comedy Cabarets
Journalist Bill Shipp described Doug's writing by saying: "Doug Monroe has done more than write about the South. He lives the South. He understands this eccentric, bi-polar, guilt-ridden region and its crazy people better than anyone. He also knows how to bring it to life for the reader who knows nothing about 'Southern' as well for the guy who grew up in Dixie and knows it only too well."