Simon van der Stap

Simon van der Stap graduated from NIDA with a Bachelor Of Dramatic Art in Acting and his theatre credits include How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular in Beijing, for DreamWorks, Standby for Scar and Pumbaa in ‘The Lion King’ for Disney Theatrical, in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai, Doug Simon in ‘Gutenberg, The Musical!’ at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and return Sydney season, the Australian & New Zealand tour of The Gruffalo for Tall Stories, the Australian premiere of The Lady in The Van for the Sydney Theatre Company, Otter in The Wind in the Willows for the Australian Shakespeare Company, Biff in Death of a Salesman and numerous others. On television Simon is best known as Dr Rudi, in SBS’s cult comedy Life Support for MacDonald Eastway. Other television credits include Water Rats, All Saints, Mumbo Jumbo and Wildside, and appeared as Kip in the feature film, The Nothing Men with Colin Friels and David Field. Simon has also toured nationally and internationally as a corporate performer and trainer for companies such as ANZ, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, Schwarzkopf, Eli Lilly, Det Norske, as well as government agencies such as Waterways, Safe Work NSW, and Work Safe Victoria. Simon has also been fight choreographer and consultant for productions such as True West, Our Country’s Good, White With Wire Wheels and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Most recently Simon performed numerous character voices for the comedy podcast series The Tuckshop Murders.