Anxious Attachment

Writer, Director, Producer | Zombie Joe's Underground, Bombay Beach Biennale, Hollywood Fringe Festival | 2026

A 20-minute stage play following two brothers, Tyler and Patrick, navigating a moment of quiet family crisis. Inspired by real-world reporting on AI companion applications and their psychological effects, the play asks what it looks like when attachment hacking meets a family that is already fractured. Premiered at Zombie Joe's 50-Hour Drive-By Theatre Festival, developed further at the Bombay Beach Biennale, and presented as part of the "Something Anxious" double feature at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Soulmate

Writer, Director, Composer, Producer | Zombie Joe's Underground, Actors' Temple Theatre (Off-Broadway, NYC) | 2025

An Off-Broadway production that began as a modern dating comedy with a polyamorous twist, evolving into a tender story of mysticism, grief, and queer awakening. Written, directed, and scored in full.

"Evolving Our Thoughts"

Contributing Chapter, Mindset Mastery | She Rises Studios Publishing | September 2025

A contributing chapter in the anthology book Mindset Mastery.

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"Proving the Human Innovation of Art"

Fenix Innovation Magazine | March 2025

An essay on the boundary between technical innovation and artistic creation in the age of generative AI, drawn from the author's experience writing, scoring, and directing the play Soulmate while deliberately limiting the use of AI tools to preserve the human process of artistic innovation.

Proving the Human Innovation of Art, by Douglas Clarke, as printed in Fenix Innovation Magazine, March 2025
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The Low-code Software Developer

LinkedIn | March 2025

An essay on how AI-assisted coding represents a new layer of abstraction in software engineering, and how the developer's role is shifting toward directing, auditing, and correcting AI-generated code rather than writing it directly.

User Flow Optimization: How AI Can Learn from User Behavior

LinkedIn | March 2025

An essay proposing that machine learning will drive a new frontier of dynamic, personalized user flow optimization, learning directly from patterns of user behavior rather than relying solely on designed use cases.