Ruby Lynn Reyner is an actress, singer, playwright and director.  She also leads the Western-Rock group, Ruby and the Rednecks.  She got her start in theater when she joined John Vacarro’s Play House of the Ridiculous.  With this group she performed CONQUEST OF THE UNIVERSE (1969), LADY GODIVA (1967,  HEAVEN GRAND IN AMBER ORBIT (1976),  COCK-STRONG (1969 & 1970),  SON OF COCK-STRONG 2 (1970),  SISSY (1972),  LA BOHEMIA (1974),  BOOK OF ETIQUETTE (1978),  GULLIVER’S  TRAVELS (1978), MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1980),  LA FIN DU CIRQUE (1984),  PINEAPPLE  FACE (1988).  She wrote and directed her own musicals CHRISTMAS IN THE ISLAND (1990s),  SINGING IN THE ISLAND (1990s), and SINGING IN THE E.R. (2019).  Other productions include OFF THE CUFF,  LAST BRUNCH,  CHRISTMAS CARDS,  and NOT UP TO SNUFF  with Jimmy Camicia (‘Hot Peaches’);  YMCA;  VOIDVILLE 1 (1979?), VANDALS OF 1981 (1981),  VOIDVILLE 2 with Gordon Bressack;  CHAMPAIGN (1985 with Jackie Curtis); LILY, A TRAGEDY FOR CABARET (1990);  ANDY MILLIGAN CINDERELLA ’85;  RED TIDE BLOOMING (2006 with Taylor Mac);  and TWO BY TAVEL  (2014).  Reyner performed on Broadway in Elizabeth 1 (1972), and performed with her group Ruby and the Rednecks at CBGB’s,  Mercer Center,  Max’s Kansas City, Town Hall,  and Hurrah’s producing two cds,  “From The Wrong Side of Town,”  and “Live Again at CBGB’s.”  Her stand-up comedy act was performed at The Improv, The Comic  Strip and Catch a Rising Star.  Two movies, Heaven Wants Out and  Finishing Heaven,  were made  after her  performance in HEAVEN GRAND IN AMBER ORBIT documenting the 70s scene on the Bowery.  They were finally shown in 2008. Other movies include Beautiful Darling (about Candy Darling) Generation UM  (with Keanu Reeves), Crush Proof, **** (Warhol’s Four Stars), About Me,  and a  film about  the ‘Cockettes.’

Ruby Lynn Reyner, from Long Island, was a show-room model for coats in Manhattan.  Her friend and co-model, Sarah Screech, invited Reyner to join her rehearsal for John Vaccaro’s ‘Play House of the Ridiculous’ at the Bowerie Lane Theatre.  She never left!!  Vaccaro in fact gave her the name, Ruby. Reyner  joined Jackie Curtis and many others in Vaccaro’s productions (many written by the brilliant Ron Tavel) which challenged conventional theatrical subject matter and etiquette while being bold, musical and outrageously beautiful.  She became a leading lady in the company and a star of the Punk ‘Glam’ scene performing with her group ‘Ruby and the Rednecks.’  She won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical in 1974 for LA  BOHEMIA, an Emmy Nomination for the documentary, Finishing Heaven (2010), and an Acker Award (2018).