For FX, he directed multiple episodes of The Americans, The Strain, and Mayans MC, for which he also served as Executive Producer/Director.
For Amazon, he directed the revamped pilot and multiple episodes of Bosch, as well as multiple episodes of Jack Ryan.
For AMC, he directed the dual episode premiere of The Walking Dead’s final season, multiple episodes of the new series, The Walking Dead: Dead City and the Pierce Brosnan led The Son, where he served as Executive Producer for the show’s entire run.
For Netflix, he directed multiple episodes of 13 Reasons Why and Another Life.
He is proud to have developed the USA series, Necessary Roughness. He directed the pilot and multiple episodes of that series and served as Executive Producer of its entire three season run.
Other directing credits include Heroes, The Catch, Ed, CSI: NY, Dead Like Me, The Mentalist, Go On, Memphis Beat, Outsourced, Judging Amy, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Joan of Arcadia, Close to Home, K-Ville & Valentine.
Dowling’s film debut, The Sum of Us, starring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson, won 17 awards including Best Feature at the Montreal and Sydney Film Festivals, four Australian Critics’ Awards including Best Picture, and six A.F.I. nominations.
On stage, he directed the award-winning New York premiere of The Sum of Us, starring Tony Goldwyn. That production opened to critical acclaim at the Cherry Lane Theatre and was awarded both an Obie and the Outer Critics Circle Award. He also directed the New York premiere of Jay Tarses’ play Man in his Underwear at Playwrights Horizons; the critically acclaimed New York revival of David Mamet’s comedy A Life in the Theater starring F. Murray Abraham; and Ralph Waite in Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie. At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he directed William Inge’s Picnic starring Blythe Danner, Tony Goldwyn, Jane Krakowski, and Gwyneth Paltrow; O’Neill’s Moon for the Misbegotten, starring Christine Lahti, Jamey Sheridan, and Pat Hingle; and an earlier production of The Sum of Us. He produced the musical Buddy at the Shubert Theatre and was the maintaining director of The Nerd on Broadway, where he directed, among others, Peter MacNicol, Robert Joy, and Peter Riegert. Prior to The Nerd, author Larry Shue and Dowling were collaborating with composer Alan Menken on a Broadway musical based on Jackie Gleason’s The Honeymooners.
Dowling was a Founding Member and, for eight years, the Artistic Director of The Actor’s Ensemble. During this time, he directed more than 20 plays, including the first full scale New York production of Lanford Wilson’s This is the Rill Speaking, the New York premiere of Dan Lauria’s Game Plan, his own A Child’s Piece, and revivals of plays by Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. He later produced Mr. Shepard’s comedy hit True West, which ran for two years at the Cherry Lane Theatre and featured during its run such actors as John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, James Belushi, Gary Cole, and Randy & Dennis Quaid. He also served as Artistic Director of the Cherry Lane from 1982 to 1995.