Ray Buffer is a Distinguished Producer, Director, and More in the Fine Arts Industry
Ray Buffer began his professional career in the fine arts at the age of 13. He has worked as an actor and vocalist in opera companies, regional equity theaters, and orchestras. After college, he moved to central Florida where he held performing contracts as a vocalist and actor for various theaters, theme parks and attractions. Ray also has served as producer, director, and/or musical director for various stage plays and musicals throughout Florida.
Ray relocated to southern California where he has acted in films, television, commercials, music videos, and voice-overs. Some of his most recent credits include portraying the stage manager “Darrell” on the award-winning HBO comedy series “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, as well as touring throughout the U.S. as a vocalist with the Mantovani Orchestra.
In addition to being an accomplished vocalist and actor, Ray composes music for films, theater and multimedia. Ray is the director and co-executive producer of “Rats & Bullies” which is his first feature length documentary film.
During the 1990’s, Buffer produced and directed theatre as well as appearing in regional and dinner theater productions. He married writer and actress, Roberta McMillan in 1992, and they divorced in 2009 with no children. In 1999 Buffer moved from Orlando, Florida where he had been working as an actor, in various theaters and theme parks across the country into Huntington Beach, CA.
With McMillan, he produced and directed, Rats & Bullies, a documentary film about relational aggression centered on the suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley following incidents of bullying in Mission, British Columbia — Canada. The film went on to win awards at film festivals and led to a speaking tour of schools and organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
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