Simon van der Stap graduated from NIDA with a Bachelor Of Dramatic Art in Acting. 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. Simon played Otter in The Wind in the Willows for the Australian Shakespeare Company, Biff in Death of a Salesman and numerous others. 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.