For this, he received a Certificate of Excellence for ‘Creative Staging’ from CATA (Cape Amateur Theatre Awards) in March 2013.  Lead actor, Dean Howarth, won the coveted CATA Award for Best Male Actor, and Samantha Jane Tunnah received a Certificate of Excellence for ‘Most Promising Female Newcomer’.

At MADS’ 2012 awards evening, The Breakfast Club won the awards for Best Production, Best Director and Best Set.  The show was included in the Cape Times list of Top 5 Amateur Dramatic Plays of 2012.

At the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, in 2011, Raymond’s production company, ‘on the shoulders of GIANTS’, produced – and he adapted & performed in- a two-handed comedy, ‘Romantic Fools’, by the USA writer, Rich Orloff.  In subsequent years, at the same venue, he adapted, produced & performed two one-person, comedy-dramas by the UK writer, Ron Aldridge, both premiere performances in South Africa – ‘My Dog’s Got No Nose’ (in 2013) and ‘Hovering’ (in 2014).  They have subsequently been presented at theatres in Muizenberg, Somerset West and Pinelands, both individually & together. In October 2016, ‘Hovering‘ was selected for inclusion in the Cape Town Fringe Festival.