Born and raised in Seattle, Doug Fullington is a dance historian and musicologist. Doug received degrees in music and law from the University of Washington and has since taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Music as a visiting scholar and auxiliary member of the faculty. In 2020 Doug was a guest instructor at Princeton University. Doug earned a Ph.D. in music history at the University of Washington in 2022. Doug’s work in ballet is focused on nineteenth-century French and Russian source material. A fluent reader of Stepanov choreographic notation, he has contributed historically informed dances to a number of productions, including The Pharaoh's Daughter for the Bolshoi Ballet (2000); “Le jardin animé” from Le Corsaire for Pacific Northwest Ballet School (2004); Le Corsaire for Bayerisches Staatsballett (2007); Giselle with Marian Smith and Peter Boal for Pacific Northwest Ballet (2011), and Paquita with Alexei Ratmansky and Marian Smith for Bayerisches Staatsballett (2014). In 2016, he staged a one-act version of Le Corsaire for Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He collaborated with Tamara Rojo in the early stages of her work on Raymonda (English National Ballet, 2022; San Francisco Ballet, 2025), and in 2024, he staged Star on the Rise... La Bayadère Reimagined! with Phil Chan at Indiana University. Most recently, he staged The Sleeping Beauty with Peter Boal at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Doug is co-author with Marian Smith of Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg (Oxford University Press, 2024.) Doug and Marian have also edited the first critical edition of Adolphe Adam’s Giselle (1841) for Bärenreiter Verlag. Hiss writings on dance have been published in Ballet Alert!, Ballet Review, Dance View, Dancing Times, Pointe Magazine, and online by Oxford University Press.
