Doug Mancheski*

Third Avenue Playworks/Playhouse: The Drawer Boy, Shooting Star, Gray’s Anatomy, Gutenberg the Musical, Slow Food, True West. Doug has acted for over two decades with Northern Sky Theater and is perhaps best known for playing Marvin in Guys On Ice, a role he has performed over 2,000 times.

Doug has acted with most of the professional theaters in WI and graduated from New York University’s MFA program for actors. His film resume includes the indie cult film, Hundreds of Beavers, currently showing in select theaters and most streaming platforms.

Blogs About Ryan’s Pub, Trivia Night

14/10/202514/10/2025

“Ryan’s Pub: Trivia Night” World Premiere! @ Third Avenue Playworks (Sturgeon Bay, WI) | Sound Design Notes

For years now, Jacob has been wanting to get his long time friend and fantastic Milwaukee based percussionist Nick Lang to be involved on a project with Third Avenue Playworks. When envisioning the music world and genre of this play, I knew it wanted to live in a rock territory. We’ve got a dive bar jukebox slinging hits from the 80’s, 90’s & today. Heck, just being set in a midwest dive bar made me think of my local dive, which always had metal playing. Plus, the story involves a deal with the devil, I mean come on – it’s gotta be rock’n roll baby. I knew that drums would really come in clutch as a centerpiece to the music sound that transitioned us between scenes. Jacob wanted short, snappy transitions infused with energy, and drums are perfect for that. So we reached out to Nick and he was down! I went over to his home studio in Milwaukee for a day and we had so much fun jamming out together on drums and bass. I really love playing this style of music, getting filthy mc nasty on the jazz bass is such a blast. Really made me want to play this music we created live!

01/10/202502/10/2025

Starring Doug Mancheski

Door County audiences may already be familiar with one of our stars in Ryan’s Pub, Trivia Night from over two decades of performance history with Northern Sky Theater in Fish Creek where he was best known for playing Marvin in Guys on Ice (a role he performed over 2,000 times!). Although Doug has played many enjoyable roles throughout his long career, he says that he most identified with the role of Marvin. He also loved hearing the audience’s laughter as they recognized Marvin’s traits in their own family and friends.

25/09/202526/09/2025

CULTURE CLUB: Audiences Help Shape Scripts for World Premieres

At Third Avenue PlayWorks, we are hard at work on our next production, Ryan’s Pub, Trivia Night, by Alec Silberlblatt, and something that makes the show special is the fact that it is a world premiere.