Darren Yap

Darren Robert Yap (born 23 August 1967)is an Australian actor and director.

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)He is a graduate of the NIDA Director’s Course and UWS Theatre Nepean.

Director

• Letters to Lindy - Merrigong Theatre
• New South Wales Pemier’s Gala Concerts, Allphones Arena, Homebush, Venables Entertainment 2016
• Ladies Day, Griffin Theatre Company, 2016
• Opening of the National Gallery and Art Carnival, SG50 Celebrations, Singapore 2015
• Little Diana and the Big Fuzz, Bree Langridge in association with the Hayes Theatre, 2015
• Miracle City for Luckies Productions at Hayes Theatre, 2014
• The Serpents Table, Sydney Festival, Griffin Theatre Company and Performance 4a, 2014
• A Murder is Announced, 2013
• 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
• 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

• CAIRO MISR PRESHOW CELEBRATIONS, World Events, Julie Brooks, Cairo 2016
• KING KONG, LIVE ON STAGE, Global Creatures, World Premiere, 2013
• MISS SAIGON, Cameron Mackintosh: Westend 2014, Tokyo, 2014
• MISS SAIGON, Cameron Mackintosh: Japan 2012, Holland 2011, Korea 2010/2011
• MAMMA MIA! 10th ANNIVERSARY AUSTRALIAN TOUR, Judy Craymer, Michael Coppell and Louise Withers and Associates
• 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

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)

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