R.A. Rayne

R.A. Rayne is an actor, writer, and producer, originally from Huntington, West Virginia. R.A. started his acting career in a little theater in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi playing the part of Ellard Simms in Larry Shue's The Foreigner. The show ran for a month and a half to sold out crowds, and local accolades. Returning to West Virginia R.A. joined the traveling acting troupe The Everyday Players lead by Catherine Pantuso. The Everyday Players performed all over the state, including The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The Greenbrier is best known for having a Presidential nuclear bunker beneath its grounds, but while the Everyday Players were there it became known for their rendition of the murder mystery Knock'em Dead. After leaving The Everyday Players, R.A.'s career began leaning more towards film and television. R.A. appeared in the Discover channels television show The Quest (episode Nightmare Virus) where he played the South American amber miner Antonio, whose mining team accidentally releases an air-born virus upon an unsuspecting town. R.A. also appeared in a number of local and regional commercials, print ads, and industrial projects before leaving West Virginia and heading to California. Once in Los Angeles R.A. returned to the theater performing in a number of plays with The Actor Space troupe. R.A. also began focusing on writing, completing his first novel entitled A Vampire's Desire. It was at this time R.A. began laying the groundwork for Up Up Down Down: the series.