After spending a number of years working in the United Kingdom on productions such as Miss Saigon, Damn Yankees, Oklahoma!, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, he secured a role at Disney as Resident and then Associate Director of The Lion King.
Early in 2016 he staged the first Mandarin speaking version of Disney's The Lion King at the Disney Grand Theatre in Shanghai and in the spring of 2018 he staged an international tour of the same musical that opened in March at the Solaire Theatre Manila and was set to tour Asia and South Africa before then traveling around the world.
[3] In the spring of 2018 The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama announced they were to bestow an Honorary Fellowship on Lyn at a ceremony in July 2018.
After receiving his Equity Card, Lyn was picked to tour the United Kingdom in The Golden Years Of Music Hall in 1986.
[4] In 1987, Lyn was cast by Bill Kenwright in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and spent just under a year touring the United Kingdom with the musical.
After performing in Les Misérables, he played the role of Ruben in the United Kingdom tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which starred Philip Schofield in 1994.
In 1999, Lyn secured a position of assistant director to Julie Taymor in Disney's The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre in London.
Lyn has remained involved with The Lion King up until the present day, and is currently the worldwide supervisor for over 10 separate productions of the play.