 He has also appeared on Broadway and in film and has released several recordings as a soloist and in a band.A founding member and co-owner of StarKid Productions, a musical theater company based in Chicago, Criss first garnered attention playing the lead role of Harry Potter in, and writing most of the music and lyrics for, StarKid's musical production of "A Very Potter Musical".The theater troupe made "Billboard" history when their original album, "Me and My Dick", became the first charting student-produced musical recording, debuting at number eleven on the Top Cast Albums chart in 2010.