Profile: Michael Rayns

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Company, Under Milk Wood (2024)
• John Dryden, Nell Gwynn (2018)
• Ilya Telegin, Uncle Vanya (2013)
• Alfieri, A View From the Bridge (2012)
• Finbar, The Weir (2009)
• Danny, Brassed Off (2009)
• Petulant, The Way of the World (2008)
• Sidney Hopcroft, Absurd Person Singular (2007)
• Father, Aristocrats (2007)
• Les Kenkatt, Boy Gets Girl (2006)
• Cornwall, King Lear (2005)
• Chaplain, A Clockwork Orange (2004)
• Fred Jesson, Brief Encounter (2004)
• Pablo Gonzalez, A Streetcar Named Desire (2004)
• Mr Pugh/Rev Eli Jenkins, Under Milk Wood (2003)
• Frank, Amy’s View (2003)
• Judge, Toad of Toad Hall (2002)
• Director, Talking Heads (2002)
• Reverend Clement Mercer, When We Are Married (2002)
• Richard, Dead Funny (2001)
• Dr Bessner, Murder on the Nile (2001)
• Charley, Death of a Salesman (2001)
• Karl Brezner, Popcorn (2000)
• Dennis, Just Between Ourselves (1999)
• Squire Western, Tom Jones (1999)
• Mr Perry, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1999)
• Leontes, The Winter’s Tale (1998)
• Siegfried Shrager, Absolute Hell (1997)
• Guy Burgess/Inspector Chubb, Single Spies (1997)
• Adolphus Grigson, The Shadow of a Gunman (1997)
• Richard Greatham, Hay Fever (1997)
• Gerald, Woman in Mind (1996)
• Dan, An Evening with Gary Lineker (1996)
• Guard, The Wizard Who Worked Wonders (1979)

Elsewhere

• Jeffrey Bernard, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (Priory Theatre)

Notes

Michael is a former chairman of the Loft Theatre Company.

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