Douglas Maxwell (born 1974 in Girvan) is a Scottish playwright, whose work has been performed throughout Scotland, the UK and abroad.
He was born to two teachers in Girvan on the Ayrshire south-west coast of Scotland.
He came to fame when Decky Does a Bronco was performed in 2000 by the Grid Iron Theatre Company.
Variety, a comic drama about the impact of cinema on Scotland's variety entertainers, was staged as at The Edinburgh International Festival in 2002 and was subsequently broadcast on BBC Four.
[1] Maxwell was also the subject of a BBC Two Scotland Artworks documentary in 2002.