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John Lyne as Shelly Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross - Photo by Tim Hinchliffe

John Lyne is a longstanding member of SLT, having performed in 101 productions to date. He is married to Pam Lyne and father of Matthew Lyne, both of whom have also been involved in many SLT Productions.

A portrait of John (as Marley in A Christmas Carol) currently hangs in the SLTC Members' Club Bar!

Acting Roles

• Captain Adolf Lassen in The Father (1972) (Main Stage)
• Percy Elliot in Epitaph for George Dillon (1972) (Prompt Corner)
• Ben in The Dumb Waiter (1972) (Main Stage)
• Rough in Gaslight (1972) (Theatre)
• Fred in Present Laughter (1972) (Main Stage)
• Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1973) (Main Stage)
• Policeman in Harlequinade (1973) (Main Stage)
• Harry in Home (1973) (Main Stage)
• The Husband in 'Countdown' in Mixed Doubles (1974) (Main Stage)
• Vladimir in Waiting for Godot (1974) (Main Stage)
• Frank in Forget-Me-Not-Lane (1974) (Main Stage)
• Pinchwife in The Country Wife (1974) (Main Stage)
• Doctor in A Lily in Little India (1975) (Main Stage)
• Dermod Gibbon in The Patrick Pearse Motel (1975) (Main Stage)
• 2nd Soldier in Mother Courage (1975) (Main Stage)
• Colonel/Mr Cross/Mr Scace in How's the World Treating You? (1976) (Main Stage)
• Mr McLeavy in Loot (1977) (Main Stage)
• Mr Purdue in Habeas Corpus (1978) (Main Stage)
• George Sedley in Straight Up (1978) (Main Stage)
• Richard Winthrop in The Ghost Train (1978) (Main Stage)
• Mr Gilbey in Fanny's First Play (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• Older Man in Intimate Strangers (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• Headmaster in Gimme Shelter (1979) (Main Stage)
• Walter Franz in The Price (1979) (Main Stage)
• Brigadier Albert Rayne CB CMG MVO in Breath of Spring (1979) (Main Stage
• Ben in The Dumb Waiter (1980) (Prompt Corner)
• Headmaster in Forty Years On (1980) (Main Satge)
• Patrick Delafield in Knuckle (1980) (Main Stage)
• Bert Bentley in Red Peppers (1981) (Main Stage)
• Peter in Zoo Story (1981) (Main Stage)
• Martin in The Offshore Island (1981) (Bell Theatre)
• King Gullible in Gullible's Troubles (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Old Gobbo and Gaoler in The Merchant of Venice (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• William Blore in Ten Little Indians (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• The Head/Doorman in The Golden Pathway Annual (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Arthur Gosport in Harlequinade (1983) (Prompt Corner)
• Ensemble in The Last Day of November (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Margenhall in Dock Brief (1983) (Prompt Corner)
• Carr Gomm in The Elephant Man (1984) (Bell Theatre)
• Ensemble in The Last Day of November (1984) (Bell Theatre)
• Sam in The Homecoming (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Drumm in Da(1985) (Bell Theatre)
• William Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Nip (George Albert) in Fur Coat and No Knickers (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Frederick Cochran in Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Stephen Spettigue in Charley's Aunt (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• "Baron"/Clive/Judge in Masterpieces (1987) (Prompt Corner)
• Stewart in Pack of Lies (1987) (Bell Theatre)
• Mr Martin in 84 Charing Cross Road (1988) (Bell Theatre)
• An officer in Tartuffe (1988) (Bell Theatre)
• in Not Now Darling (1989) (Bell Theatre)
• Seamus Shields in The Shadow of a Gunman (1989) (Bell Theatre)
• Pavel Vasilyevich/Kamyshev/Brizzhalov/Smirnov/Nyukhin/A cart driver/Svetlovidov/Chubukov in The Sneeze (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• Ben in Death of a Salesman (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• The Dean of Paddington in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• Doctor/Man with Dishwasher in Trumpets and Raspberries (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• Theo in There's One in Every Unit (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• Dr Bradley in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• Jack Hickman in Happy Families (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• Captain Cat in Under Milk Wood (1991) (Prompt Corner)
• The Person in Echoes (1992) (Prompt Corner)
• Company for Music Hall (1992) (Prompt Corner)
• The Chaplain in The Lady's not for Burning (1992) (Bell Theatre)
• The Stage Manager in Our Town (1993) (Bell Theatre)
• Norman Thayer (Junior) in On Golden Pond (1994) (Bell Theatre)
• Lord and Baptista Minola in The Taming of the Shrew (1994) (Bell Theatre)
• King in Jack and the Beanstalk (1994) (Bell Theatre)
• Doctor Spivey in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1995) (Bell Theatre)
• Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya (1995) (Bell Theatre)
• Egeon, a Syracusan Merchant in The Comedy of Errors (1996) (Bell Theatre)
• Father Jack in Dancing at Lughnasa (1996) (Bell Theatre)
• Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997) (Bell Theatre)
• Henry Ormonroyd in When We Are Married (1997) (Bell Theatre)
• Dr Maurice Oakley in Shadowlands (1998) (Bell Theatre)
• Mr Purdue in Habeas Corpus (1998) (Bell Theatre)
• Philip in Sweet Sorrow (1999) (Bell Theatre)
• Old Man in 'Waiting' in Visiting Hour (1999) (Bell Theatre)
• Sheldon Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross (2000) (Bell Theatre)
• Cooper in A Month of Sundays (2000) (Prompt Corner)
• Andrew Jorgenson in Other People's Money (2001) (Bell Theatre)
• Verner Conklin in Come into the Garden, Maud (2003) (Bell Theatre)
• Bill in 'That's That, Then' from Between You and Me (2003) (Prompt Corner)
• Alonso in The Tempest (2003) (Bell Theatre)
• Sigmund Freud in Hysteria (2004) (Bell Theatre)
• George S. Aronovitz in The Duck Variations (2004) (Bell Theatre)
• Seigneur Anselm in The Miser (2004) (Bell Theatre)
• Old Man in Macbeth (2004) (Prompt Corner)
• Old Gentleman in Roberto Zucco (2005) (Bell Theatre)
• Mr Plummer in The Farndale ... Macbeth (2005) (Bell Theatre)
• Cleaner in The Departure Lounge (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• Jacob 'Jake' Manheim in Chinese Coffee (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• The Ghost Of Joseph Marley/A Constable in A Christmas Carol (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Giles Corey in The Crucible (2007) (Prompt Corner)
• The Emperor Min Sing in Aladdin (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Shepherd in The Winter's Tale (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Nat in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Farley Hamilton in Inheritance (2008) (Bell Theatre)
• Judge Littlefield in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Petey Boles in The Birthday Party (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Daniel Tucker in The Ruling Class (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• First Mercahnt/Doctor Pinch in The Comedy of Errors (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev in The Seagull (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• The Duke in The Thwarting Of Baron Bolligrew (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Mr Martin in 84 Charing Cross Road (2011) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Prompt

• The House of Bernarda Alba (1973) (Main Stage)
• The Disorderly Women (1976) (Main Stage)
• Plaza Suite (1978) (Main Stage)
• Prompt for On Monday Next (1980)
• Prompt for The Knack (1981) (Main Stage)

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