Lane Davies - Stage Roles

Stage Roles

On stage, Davies has worked with such companies as the Trinity Square Repertory Company of Providence, Rhode Island; Atlanta's Alliance Theater; Houston's Alley Theatre; The Old Globe Theater in San Diego; the Georgia Shakespeare Festival; the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles, as well as with the two companies he founded and co-founded. His classical credits include Henry IV, Mark Antony, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Orlando, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Richard III, as well as the direction of several productions.

Some of his more contemporary work includes: Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy, David Crockett in the highly acclaimed Crockett By Himself, Slim in Of Mice and Men and William Desmond Taylor in a revival of Mack and Mabel.

Davies also played the lead in such plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac at the Globe Playhouse. He co-starred with Matthew Faison in a revival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, playing Rosencrantz. He has directed a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Davies founded the Santa Susana Repertory Company, a nonprofit professional theatre company dedicated to cultural enrichment of the community through the presentation of outstanding plays and musicals from the repertories of American and world classics. He also co-founded the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company in cooperation with California Lutheran University. Kingsmen Shakespeare Company was listed, in 2004, as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World by Marcus D. Gregio (Editor). In 2007-2008, Davies founded the Tennessee Shakespeare Festival in Bell Buckle, TN, as a professional summer company. Its first production was Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (one of Davies' favorites) set in Athens, GA, instead of Athens, Greece. Lane is now involved in many productions in Middle Tennessee, including multiple performances with the Tennessee Repertory Theater in Nashville.