Darren is a graduate of the NIDA Director’s Course and Theatre Nepean. He received a Green Room Award for Best Re-Staging by a Resident Artist for the world Premiere of The Boy From OZ.

Directing credits:

Sydney: Chinese New Year Parade for City of Sydney 2008. 
Middle East: Segment Director of The Closing Ceremony of the 15th Asian Games. 
Singapore: World Premiere of Dick Lee’s Man Of Letters, (Singapore Repertory Theatre) and The Admiral’s Odyssey (Action Theatre, Singapore). 
Sydney: The New South Wales Premiere’s Concert (Sydney Entertainment Centre 2006, 2007). 
Associate Director of Miss Saigon: Australian Tour 2007/08, Hong Kong, Singapore, Manchester, Dublin and Edinburgh for Cameron Mackintosh. 
Closing Ceremony of the Games Of The XXVII olympiad held in Sydney, 2000.  
Resident Director: Australasian Tour of MAMMA MIA! (Perth, Adelaide, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brisbane and Melbourne). 
Gale Edwards World Premiere of The Boy From Oz starring Todd McKenney.
Affiliate Director: Sydney Theatre Company. 
Assistant Director for David Williamson’s The Great Man (STC), Katherine Thomson’s Navigating (STC) and  Miracle City (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts).