Darren K. Hawkins

Darren was born in Parramatta, an outer suburb of Sydney Australia. He attended Northmead High School (now a performing arts high school), studying during his time art, music and drama. During his time there he was a part of a Shakespeare review, playing the role of Hamlet, made the school representative teams in basketball, Rugby league and Rugby Union and had his year 12 art work represent in "Art Express". Playing in bands since the age of 15, he continued to pursue a career in music until the late 1990's . Changing path's, tho continuing to perform, he began working as an actor, taking various bit part and extras roles before landing his first professional job in the docu-drama , Something About AJ (2002) , principle photography in December-February period of 2000 - 2001. Darren soon after began to land other acting jobs, varying from roles in short film projects, stage productions, independent and studio films as well as US TV pilots. Reflecting on his time with radio station 2CCR in Sydney, where he spent several years in the 1990's hosting and co-hosting shows, Darren also began doing voice over work, lending his voice to indie animations as well as a number of regional television campaigns. For some time now tho, he has been balancing his work in front of camera as an actor with his work as a writer/director. Working on numerous smaller projects in different crew roles before taking on the role as director, Darren's films have shown to international audiences and he has won praise for his "keen sense of story, flow and movement" and for being on set, "an actor's director", motivating his actors from a place of empathy and understanding.