He attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television acting program and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
He has also been a company member at the Pacific Resident Theatre, with leading roles in their productions of The Time of Your Life, Of Mice and Men, and The Blue Dahlia.
Derringer has appeared in the web series The Lake as Jack Riley, directed by Jason Priestley.
He played Kyle Sloane on ABC's General Hospital in November 2014, and reprised the role in September 2015.
In 2018 Derringer appeared in five episodes of the Facebook Watch drama Queen America in the recurring role of Robert Crowe, an old boyfriend of the show's main character, Vicki Ellis, played by Catherine Zeta Jones.