In 2015, Wayne won "Outstanding Director" in the 2015 St. Louis Theater Circle Awards for his production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman with Insight Theater Company. Death of a Salesman won five awards that year, including Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Production.

Wayne moved from his position at Webster to Saint Louis University, where he taught theatre and eventually served as the department chair. Teaching was always his greatest passion, one for which he had a tremendous gift. He taught classes in mime, acting, and directing, and he leaves behind countless students shaped by his legacy.

Wayne and Tuck moved from Iowa to St. Louis in 1962, with five kids in tow. Wayne took a job teaching theater at Webster University, and the family moved into a small house in Webster Groves. Their last child, Kip, would be born in St. Louis.

Wayne worked in the early days of radio and television broadcasting in Iowa. His crowning accomplishment from this period was directing "The Secret of Flight," a thirteen-episode television series hosted by German aeronautical engineer Dr. Alexander Lippisch. It explored the mystery and science of emerging flight technologies. The series won a Peabody Award.

You can watch the first episode of the series here.

Wayne was the first in his family to go to college, attending St. Ambrose University, a Catholic college in Davenport, Iowa. An all-boys school at the time, St. Ambrose was partnered with a local all-girls college which numbered among its student body one Shirley Mescher. Wayne and Shirley met during their studies and married soon after graduating.

Wayne was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He had two older brothers and one younger sister. The family would later move to the Quad Cities, Iowa.