http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/glee-to-promote-darren-criss-to-regular/'Glee' To Promote
Darren Criss
To Series Regular
By MICHAEL AUSIELLO, TV Columnist
Wednesday November 10, 2010 @ 12:14pm PST
EXCLUSIVE: Darren Criss is hitting all the right notes with his new
Glee bosses. Hot on the heels of his well-received debut last night as
Kurt's gay role model
Blaine, the actor/singer/songwriter is in talks to become a full-fledged series regular. The promotion for Criss - who initially came on board the Fox hit as a recurring - would likely kick in at the start of the show's already-greenlit third season. This would mark the first regular TV gig for Criss whose biggest pre-
Glee TV role was an arc on ABC’s short-lived
Eastwick. He first found fame on the Internet as the star of YouTube viral hit
A Very Potter Musical. Here is Criss performing
Teenage Dream on last night's
Glee episode.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_CrissDarren CrissFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDarren Everett Criss (born February 5, 1987) is an American television actor, singer-songwriter and Internet personality. He is probably best known as
Harry Potter in
A Very Potter Musical and as of 9th November 2010, plays
Blaine, a Dalton Academy Warbler, on the television series
Glee.Early life and educationOriginally from San Francisco, California, Darren Criss is half-Filipino and half-Irish . He attended Stuart Hall School for Boys and St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School and went on to the University of Michigan, graduating in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance, Acting.
CareerCriss is part of the theater production group
Team StarKid, formed by theater students at the
University of Michigan. His most popular role with Team StarKid was as
Harry Potter in the YouTube viral hit
A Very Potter Musical , and
A Very Potter Sequel. Both productions are musical-comedies based on the Harry Potter series by
J.K. Rowling. He is credited with writing half of the songs in
A Very Potter Musical and all of the songs in
A Very Potter Sequel. He is also the primary songwriter for Team StarKid's upcoming show,
StarShip, to be performed in February 2011.
On November 9, 2010, Criss is slated to join the cast of
Glee as
Blaine, a gay student at a rival school.
Glee creator
Ryan Murphy stated, "Darren has a major, major arc...He sort of becomes Kurt's mentor and then maybe love--he had to leave his own school because of bullying and goes to an all-boys academy and finds acceptance because that school has a no-bullying, zero-tolerance policy. So Kurt really admires him and respects him. He plays someone who's one year older than Chris' character, so he's the old pro."
His work outside of Team StarKid and
Glee include his stint as
Josh in the television series
Eastwick and a guest-starring role in
Cold Case.
He also released a self-produced EP
Human on iTunes in the summer of 2010.
Darren Criss as Harry
A Very Potter Musical
Act 1 Part 1
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