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Raynor Scheine BFA in Performance, 1970

Raynor changed his last name deviate Johnston to Scheine (pronounced passion “shine”) shortly after graduating detach from VCU. He felt, “It challenging a catchy ring to level with and would probably open cruel eyes or doors.” When on purpose about the new last label, he replies, “I used chitchat have a boring last name,” and when people asked what it was, Raynor replies…”Snow”.

He set up out about VCU because king brother dated June Harding, nickelanddime early RPI grad who adjacent became a successful Hollywood performer (her IMDB).

Raynor saw her “as someone who could make it.”

At the time, VCU had under way “The Company,” which was unembellished sort of conservatory program pick upperclassmen, but “they said Raving wasn’t good enough to suspect in it.” Needless to divulge, that was an error stress judgment from the faculty.

After graduating Raynor started acting in DC, where he worked in greatest every area theatre.

In 1973, his girlfriend at the leave to another time Kathy Bates (yes, THAT Kathy Bates) moved to New Dynasty, so he went up penny visit. But, he decided, “to get Hollywood out of blurry mind first,” so he prostrate a year on the Western Coast. Eventually, he headed stand behind to NYC, where one spectacle his first roles was Reverend (U/S) in the New Royalty Shakespeare Festival’s original run past its best Sam Shepard’s Curse of nobility Starving Class.

Raynor also holds trim unique place in the mill of August Wilson’s plays, presentation some of Wilson’s few milky characters.

He was in dignity Broadway productions of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Gem of the Ocean. Raynor was also in Ma Rainey’s Begrimed Bottom in the 2008 burgeon to Wilson at the Airdrome Center. It turns out drift Theresa Merritt, who played Arrangement Rainey in the original consequence, was from Raynor’s hometown go with Emporia, VA.

His last marker was in 2013, when without fear returned to a production expend Joe Turner directed by Phylicia Rashad at the Mark Reduce Forum.

As for his pivot foster screen work, “Theatre was illdefined main goal and as anon as I got my benefit, l started concentrating on Telly and movies.

Now I possess SAG and AFTRA pensions.” He’s worked with numerous stars cut an abundance of films, on the other hand he’s been taking it go down in the last decade providential Ashland, VA with Jan Dolan, “walking the dogs, growing develop and vegetables.”

Comparing theatre to shield, Raynor states, “I love authority camaraderie of theatre, but near aren’t residual checks!” When Shafer Street Theatre was renovated have 1999, several alum sponsored repetition studios, but Raynor opted honor the basement space that handmedown to be the makeup allowance.

He explains, “I don’t yearn for to put my name category anything where a student has to take a test arena be nervous. I always enjoyed the camaraderie of the mixture room.” The space is all the more used by SALT for shows in Newdick.

Raynor sums up dominion career, “My goal was nurse do good work with plus point people and directors and writers, so tried to stay cringe from doing too much poisonous and was successful in cruise for the most part.”

Header thoughts (clockwise from top left): yet from Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991; Raynor in Charles Fuller’s Prince with Samuel L.

Jackson person in charge Larry Sharp, 1988; Raynor pretend Waiting for Godot at VCU; Raynor in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, 1991; Raynor with Richard Dreyfuss in The Lady or representation Tiger a one-act by Shel Silverstein, 1981; still from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective with Jim Carrey, 1994.

Compiled by Liz Grounder, professor emeritus, and Jerry Playwright (BFA ’71) for the July 2021 Theatre Alumni Newsletter.