Darren Criss received Emmy and Golden Globe acting awards for his leading role in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. He is widely known for playing Blaine Anderson on Fox TV’s hit musical comedy/drama series Glee. On the series, as lead vocalist of the show’s Dalton Academy Warblers, his cover of the song “Teenage Dream” became the fastest-selling Glee single ever, reaching as high as number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was a certified gold single in the U.S. Darren was nominated for an Emmy Award this year for writing the song “This Time” for the Glee finale. On Broadway, Darren Criss has starred in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.  He is one of the founding members and co-owners of StarKid Productions, the musical theater company based in Chicago, at which he starred as Harry Potter in the company’s production of A Very Potter Musical. The company’s original album “Me and My Dick” made Billboard history by becoming the first charting student-produced musical recording, debuting at number eleven on the Top Cast Albums chart in 2010. Criss made his feature film debut in 2012 in the comedy Girl Most LIkely.