Rob Lane

Rob hails from Porthcawl, and so along with everyone else in that town and its environs, had no other choice than to engage on a career in the theatre! He now spends his days in a village just outside the leafy and indeed Royal town of Windsor with his wife and children.
Rob has worked as an actor and director with many companies. He has also helped start a few, such as Floating bubble Theatre (who worked extensively throughout a scout hut in Edinburgh!), Theatr Y Byd (who seemed to go from strength to strength the less he had to do with them!) but, perhaps most success came with the formation of Mappa Mundi Theatre.
 
Acting work includes -
Work for the BBC, S4C, Radio 4 Drama Dept.,(“Death and the Pleasant Voices,”  “Green Baize Dreams” among others), The Animated Bible(Joseph and his Dream coat - Reuben).
Theatre work -The Tempest(Wales Actors Company),In Praise of War(Tennyson), Macbeth(Macbeth),Anthony &Cleopatra (Anthony),Titus Andronicus (Aeron),Taming of the Shrew(Petruchio), Loves Labours Lost ( Don Armado), Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch), Julius Caesar (Brutus), Henry V (Constable), The Canterbury Tales(Many &Varied!), all for Mappa Mundi Theatre Company. Over the years he has also acted with companies as diverse as The Sherman (101 Dalmatians), Hijinx Theatre (Ill met by Moonlight) and Theatr Iolo (Macbeth),and the long forgotten Theatr Y Byd Sunday night series -“The Great Adventures of Rhys and Hywel“.  Notable TV work includes “Pam fi Duw,” and “Journey’s End”.

Directing work includes -
As you like it, King Lear, The Three Musketeers, Hamlet, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Nights Dream, (all for Mappa Mundi). Musicals include The Boyfriend, O! What a Lovely War, Animal Farm, The Threepenny Opera, and Godspell. For Floating Bubble and Theatr Y Byd, he directed Agamemnon, A Slight Inaccuracy of Aim (at the Edinburgh Fringe), and A Shoemakers Holiday (Chapters Arts Christmas Show). Rob has also worked with youth theatres, such as Cardiff County Youth Theatre, and Bridgend County Youth Theatre.

Rob is delighted to be working back in Wales again after many years away, and to be reunited with Geinor who he went to Welsh College with, back in 1673. After a few years away both teaching and helping to raise a family, Cyrano marks Rob’s return to the stage.

Rob, like a fool has entered the London marathon next year and is on a free transfer to Theatr Na nog from the Datchet Dashers.