Darren Yap

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Darren Yap
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Born
Darren Robert Yap

(1967-08-23)23 August 1967
Nationality Australian
Education Newington College
UWS Theatre Nepean
NIDA
Years active1990 to present
Spouse Max Lambert

Darren Yap is an Australian actor and director based in Sydney, Australia.

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Family and education

He was born in Sydney, New South Wales and grew up in the South Western Sydney suburb of Cabramatta. He was the third child of a Malaysian-born father and his third-generation Australia-born ethnically Chinese mother. His father, Robert Yap, was a medical practitioner in the western suburbs of Sydney, his brother is a pharmacist in the inner eastern suburbs of Sydney and his sister is a medical practitioner in Victoria.

Yap was educated at Newington College (1980–85). [1]

He initially applied to do the stage management course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) but he was not accepted. When the degree course in acting at University of Western Sydney's Theatre Nepean was first offered he chose to do that. [2] Following UWS, Yap graduated from the director's course at NIDA. [3]

His life partner is the composer Max Lambert. [4]

Career

Yap has a successful career in acting and directing theatre. [5] [6] [7]

Directing

Director

Associate director

Resident director

Affiliate director

Acting

Theatre

Television

Film

Awards

Yap received a Green Room Award for Best Re-Staging by a Resident Artist for the world premiere of The Boy from Oz .[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp222
  2. In Conversation with Darren Yap NIDA Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  3. "Black Bird Productions – Director". Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  4. ABC Radio Sunday Brunch Darren Yap Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  5. Stage Whispers – Interview
  6. Darren Yap thinks small for Hayes Theatre Co’s star-studded Miracle City Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  7. Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam premieres at Riverside Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  8. ‘The One’ Ensemble Theatre Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  9. "Seymour Centre Subscription Season 2009". Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
  10. "Seymour Centre Subscription Season 2009". Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2009.