Darren Yap

Darren Robert Yap (born 23 August 1967) ^[1] is an Australian actor and director. ^[2]

Early life

Yap was born in Sydney and grew up in the suburb of Cabramatta. He was the third child of a Malaysian-born Sydney medical practitioner and his fourth-generation Australia-born Chinese wife. Yap was educated at Newington College (1980–85) ^[1] He is a graduate of the NIDA Director’s Course and UWS Theatre Nepean.^[3]

Directing

Director

• Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias and Joe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts' I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change for the Seymour Centre Subscription Season 2009 ^[4]
• Chinese New Year Parade for City of Sydney, 2008
• Segment Director of The Closing Ceremony of the 15th Asian Games, Doha, 2006
• World Premiere of Dick Lee’s Man of Letters, Singapore Repertory Theatre
• World Premiere of The Admiral's Odyssey, Action Theatre, Singapore
• New South Wales Premier's Concert, Sydney Entertainment Centre, 2006 & 2007

Associate Director

• Miss Saigon tour for Cameron Mackintosh in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Manchester, Dublin and Edinburgh, 2007 & 2008
• Closing Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney, 2000

Resident Director

• Australasian tour of Mamma Mia in Perth, Adelaide, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brisbane and Melbourne
• World Premiere of The Boy from Oz starring Todd McKenney

Affiliate Director

• Sydney Theatre Company for David Williamson’s The Great Man and Katherine Thomson’s Navigating
• Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts for Miracle City

Acting

Theatre

• Constance Drinkwater and the Final days of Somerset
• Shadow and Splendour (Queensland Theatre Company)
• Songket (Griffin Theatre Company)
• Sydney Stories (Sydney Theatre Company)
• M. Butterfly(Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Capricornia (State Theatre Company of South Australia)
• The Quartet from Rigoletto (Ensemble Theatre)
• Cockroach Opera (Company B)
• Miss Saigon (Cameron Mackintosh)
• Chess (Victoria State Opera)
• The Wedding Song (NIDA Company)
• Anything Goes (Mike Walsh).

Television

• Over The Hill
• G. P.
• Embassy
• Bony
• Heartland
• Mission Impossible
• Richmond Hill
• Tanamera - Lion of Singapore
• Children of the Dragon
• The Leaving of Liverpool
• A Difficult Woman

Film

• The Home Song Stories (Tony Ayres)
• Floating Life (Clara Law)

Awards

Yap received a Green Room Award for Best Re-Staging by a Resident Artist for the world Premiere of The Boy from Oz.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp222
2. ^ Stage Whispers – Interview
3. ^ Black Bird Productions – Director
4. ^ Seymour Centre Subscription Season 2009

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