[1][2] In 2017 Denton appeared with Lucy Moir in the John Kolvenbach play Love Song at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

[3] He also appeared as Billy Bibbit in a version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at the South Bank Theatre in Melbourne.

[4] In 2018 Denton appeared in the play Wild by Mike Bartlett for the Melbourne Theatre Company, a role loosely based on whistle-blower Edward Snowden.

[8][9] Denton beat 200 or so actors to the role of Vicomte de Valmont in the television production of Dangerous Liaisons after passing a number of auditions and screen tests beginning in early 2020.

[10] Denton said he found the costumes from the period altered his posture by positioning his spine at a stricter angle.