Douglas Scott Sorenson

Home -- Bio -- Media/Reel -- Archives -- Headshot & Resume -- Contact

THE WHIPPING MAN by Matthew Lopez

directed by Linnet Taylor

FEATURING: Frankie Faison, Brandon O'Neil Scott, and Douglas Scott Sorenson as Caleb

It is April 1865, Passover, and American slaves have been set free throughout the South. A Jewish Confederate soldier returns from the war to find that his home is in ruins and that his family has disappeared. Only two former slaves remain. As each man contemplates an uncertain future, they are forced to face the truth about their past, and the complexity of freedom.

Luna Stage Company

695 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey

"...A MESMERIZING DRAMA...(Lopez) gives the audience plenty to ponder as "The Whipping Man" reaches its spellbinding conclusion." -Peter Filichia, The Star-Ledger

"...A FIRST-RATE PRODUCTION." "...powerfully acted by the three-person Luna cast under Linnet Taylor's incisive direction." - Naomi Siegel, The New York Times

"...solid performances from three very talented actors."..."In a natural performance, Douglas Scott Sorenson creates a conflicted wary, white Southerner trying to navigate the past and the present, and desperate to keep alive the hope of a future." -Thom Molyneaux, The Montclair Times

"...RICHLY IMAGINATIVE." "...a cause for celebration." "Douglas Scott Sorenson is appropriately gruff, overbearing and dense as Caleb...metaphorically representing the southern white American male who would take a very long time to comprehend the corrosive effect of the appalling legacy of slavery." - Bob Rendell, Talkin' Broadway

"Douglas Scott Sorenson's Caleb, a rather snotty, arrogant young man, convincingly responds to the revelations that undermine everything he's believed about his family, his society, in short, the very milieu he inhabits." - Ruth Ross, The Essex Journal

"Sorenson's display of physical pain and mental anguish is flawless." - Pat Ferro, Suburban News