Question: Songs for A Very Potter Senior Year were written by American actor, singer, and songwriter known for the founding which musical theater company based in Chicago?
Context: Darren Everett Criss (born February 5, 1987) is an American actor, singer and songwriter.  One of the founding members and co-owners of StarKid Productions, a musical theater company based in Chicago, Criss first garnered attention playing the lead role of Harry Potter in 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. The Romance of Magno Rubio is a play by Lonnie Carter based on a short story by Carlos Bulosan.  Developed by the Ma-Yi Theater Company, it had its premiere in October, 2002 in New York City.  The production, cast members and writers were the recipients of eight (8) special 2003 Obie Awards, the prestigious off and off-Broadway awards given annually by the Village Voice.  There have been subsequent productions at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater, the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, Laguna Playhouse, the International Theater Festival in Bucharest and Sibiu, Romania and numerous cities around the world.  In 2007 it opened the Asian-American Theater Festival at the Culture Project in New York and the Latino-American Festival at the Los Angeles Theater Center.  Most recently, Magno was seen in Los Angeles in two productions at the Ford Amphitheatre in both the English and Tagalog languages.  The same actor, JonJon Briones, played Magno in both languages and was roundly acclaimed.  In November Magno will be in Singapore as the premiere production of the new Entablado Theater Company (ETC).  Magno the Movie is being written for a shooting in 2013 by Lonnie Carter and Charles Uy, the director/producer.  Plans for a production by Chinese Pirate Productions are in the works for 2013. The Bridge Stage of the Arts, Inc. (The Bridge) is an American theater company based in New York City.  It was incorporated by its Artistic Director, Avra Petrides, in 1980; and has produced American/International music- theater festivals in the South of France (Languedoc-Roussillon region) with American musical-theater artists such as Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist and librettist of "My Fair Lady", and Betty Comden and Adolph Green screenwriters and lyricists of "Singin' In The Rain."  These artists performed and also gave master classes on musical theater to lyricists, librettists, playwrights, composers, directors, and performers from all over the world.  In Lower Manhattan The Bridge has presented "Performance-Forums" in which theater artists collaborate on productions with astrophysicists, philosophers, architects and others working in a variety of disciplines.  Also, in Lower Manhattan, The Bridge produced "Hart & Hammerstein Centennial Plus One" which re-introduced "Castle Clinton" as a noteworthy performance space. A Very Potter Senior Year (often shortened to AVPSY) is a musical written by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden with songs by Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers, A. J. Holmes, and additional songs by Darren Criss.  It is the conclusion of the "Very Potter" trilogy of "Harry Potter"-inspired musicals produced over four years by StarKid Productions.  Rather than a full musical, as with its previous installments, the production took the form of a live staged reading of the script with performances of the songs at LeakyCon in Chicago, Illinois, on August 11, 2012.  It featured nearly all of the StarKid actors and actresses, including actor Darren Criss, who returned to the company to reprise his role as Harry Potter, and Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood, who played the character in the original film series. Un-Scripted Theater Company is an improv theater company based out of San Francisco, California.  Unlike most improv troupes, Un-Scripted Theater Company does not perform just one kind of improv format, but rather 4 to 7 runs of uniquely different improv formats each year.  Each season is set up like a "normal" theater season with 4 to 8 week runs of shows, each with its own Director, format, and vision. Lyric Opera Virginia (LOV) is a not-for-profit professional opera and musical theater company based in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.  The LOV presents classical and contemporary opera and musical theater repertoire and trains promising young vocal and theater artists.  Maestro Joseph Walsh is General and Artistic Director.  LOV's 2011–2012 inaugural season featured Verdi's "La Traviata" starring Manon Strauss Evrard, Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" with Lisa Vroman and Kevin Gray, and an abridged production of "Carmen" with Magdelena Wor and Jonathan Burton.  The 2012–2013 season included a Discovery Recital and "Romeo and Juliet", featuring Cody Austin and Emily Duncan-Brown.  The 2013–2014 season will feature "Viva Verdi! , Broadway and Beyond, La Vie De Boheme" and "Master Class" by Terrence McNally. Cornerstone Theater Company is a theater company based in the United States that specializes in community-based collaboration.  According to the mission statement published on the company's website, "Cornerstone Theater Company is a multi-ethnic, ensemble-based theater company.  We commission and produce new plays, both original works and contemporary adaptations of classics, which combine the artistry of professional and community collaborators.  By making theater with and for people of many ages, cultures and levels of theatrical experience, Cornerstone builds bridges between and within diverse communities in our home city of Los Angeles and nationwide." Teen Musical Theater of Oregon (TMTO) is a youth theater program in Medford, Oregon produced by Craterian Performances along with Next Stage Repertory Company.  TMTO is celebrated for high quality performances in the Collier Center for the Performing Arts where the company has put on many award-winning musicals.  Teen Musical Theater of Oregon includes kids age 13 - 19 but will sometimes add children age 9 - 12, known as Children's Musical Theater of Oregon, depending on the show.  Along with children and teens of this age, Teen Musical Theater will sometimes add "Guest Stars" to the shows who take on roles such as Daddy Warbucks in Annie and The Man In Chair from The Drowsy Chaperone.  TMTO will generally put on three productions a year - a spring show, a summer show, and a winter show.  TMTO will occasionally produce concerts with a smaller, selected cast. Joseph Michael "Joey" Richter (born July 31, 1989) is an American actor, singer, and internet personality.  Richter co-starred as Ron Weasley in the fan-parody musicals, "A Very Potter Musical" (2009), "A Very Potter Sequel" (2010) and "A Very Potter Senior Year" (2012) with Bonnie Gruesen and Glee star Darren Criss, created by University of Michigan theatre group, StarKid Productions.  He starred in leading roles in two other StarKid productions: as a fictionalized version of himself in the musical "Me and My Dick" (2009) and as Bug in "Starship" (2011).  Richter graduated from the University of Michigan in 2011.  Richter also performed on The SPACE Tour along with several fellow Starkids.  In 2012, Richter performed in Starkid's Apocalyptour. The Soho Repertory Theatre, known as Soho Rep, is an Off-Broadway theater company with a 73-seat space located at 46 Walker Street in the TriBeCa district of Manhattan, New York City.  The non-profit theater company was founded in 1975 by Jerry Engelbach and Marlene Swartz in an old hat warehouse on Mercer Street, in SoHo.  With a founding mission to produce rarely seen classical works, the theater company has grown from an Off-Off Broadway house in Soho, through multiple locations, to its current home in a 73-seat theatre located at 46 Walker Street between Broadway and Church Street in Tribeca, where they now produce mainly new works on an Off Broadway contract.  They are an award-winning theater company which has won multiple prizes, including Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Drama Critics' Circle Awards, and awards from "The New York Times".
Answer: StarKid Productions