Ditas Yap is a Filipino Stage Director, Teacher, Multi-Artist, Agriculturist, and Mother of 3. As a stage director, she has directed numerous musical theater plays, teaching drama, movement, and dance to over a thousand school age children and young people back in her hometown, Angeles City, in the Philippines. As a multi-artist, she engages in different art forms to soothe her heart’s yearnings to co-create. Three of her milestones include a self-published coffee table book, entitled Heart In Any Language, 3 solo art exhibits bearing the same title, and authoring a musical play entitled The Greatest Showtime (2019). In her spare time, she engages in various sports activities, photography, home movie editing, cooking, reading, and communing with nature.

Ditas is currently enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington, pursuing Master of Fine Arts in Theater (Directing). Kia Ora Khalid is an ongoing project in partial fulfillment of the requirements of her MFA program. Coming from the Philippines to Aotearoa New Zealand, she hopes to continue her mission to serve schools and communities, and help empower young individuals through Theatre, with hope of advocating good change all around the world.