Mia Swier, an American writer and producer for Fox Networks, is also a prominent vocalist and bassist in the music industry. She is engaged to Darren Criss, an actor, singer, and songwriter who portrayed Blaine Anderson on the Fox musical drama series “Glee,” on which she also served as a producer. Criss played Anderson on the show. She has worked for networks other than Fox, including NBC, ABC, USA, and Showtime. She has worked on movies and television shows like “Saturday Night Live,” “Dexter,” “Shameless,” “The Twilight Saga,” “The Mindy Project,” etc. as a producer and director. Under her stage name Mia Von Glitz, Swier has played in a number of bands, including the rock group “Shoot the Freak,” the all-girl band “Guns ‘n Hoses,” and the band “Mad Moon Riot,” which she also co-founded. In 2009, she and Dan Bricker co-founded the movie production business Effin Media. In October 2012, she started her production company, Von Glitz Productions.
Become a Star
Mia Swier produced multiple live, nationally televised events like the “Super Bowl” and the “Thanksgiving Day Parade” while working as a production assistant at White Cherry Entertainment from 2004 to 2006 while still a student at New York University. In 2005, she worked as a production intern for ABC Television Network. The following year, she transferred to USA Networks where she worked as a Nashville Star Production Assistant.
She joined NBC in 2007 and started contributing to the hugely successful live television program “Saturday Night Live.” In 2009, she changed networks once more, this time joining Showtime Networks Inc., where she spent the following three years as an Associate Producer. She created marketing materials for several television programs, film pictures, including “Dexter,” “The Twilight Saga,” and documentaries during this time. She teamed together with Dan Bricker to co-found the movie-making business Effin Media in 2009. For Effin Media, she co-wrote, co-directed, and co-produced the short psycho-thriller “Somewhere Between” and the mockumentary “A (Not So) Civil Union.” In 2012, she transferred to the Special Ops division of Fox Network where she worked as a writer and producer on programs like “The Mindy Project,” “Glee,” and “Teen Choice Awards.” She and actor Darren Criss, who portrayed an openly homosexual character on the musical drama series “Glee,” made their long-term relationship public after she started working on the show in 2013. The couple has since continued to appear frequently in tabloids, but most recently they caused a sensation when they announced their engagement in early 2018.
Songs and Other Works
Mia Swier works hard at both her successful production profession and her passion for music. She used the stage name Mia Von Glitz and played as the bassist and vocalist for the alt-punk hard rock band ‘Shoot the Freak’ in her early career, following in the footsteps of her father, a painter who worked under the pseudonym Laszlo Von Glitz.
She quit the group in 2012 to start her own all-girl band, Guns ‘n Hoses, and started playing live as its bassist. She founded her own production company, Von Glitz Productions, in October of that same year and began working as a freelance writer, producer, and director. Later, she and Matt Hitchens and Ru Hazell co-founded the band “Mad Moon Riot,” and she started performing as the main vocalist. She had to disband the group, nevertheless, in March 2015 so that she could concentrate on her duties at Fox Networks.
Individual Life of Mia Swier
On September 1st, 1985, Mia Elan Swier was born in New York, New York, in the United States. From 1988 through 2003, she attended Indian Springs School; at age 10, she moved to Alabama. Later, she went back to her homeland to continue her education at New York University, where she earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mass Communication and Media Studies in 2007. She enrolled in the New York Film Academy in 2008 to take a course in filmmaking, which she finished in 2009.
Relationships
Since 2010, Mia Swier has been dating actor and musician Darren Criss. In 2013, while they were both cast members of “Glee,” the couple made their relationship public for the first time. She stated in an interview that he was not yet an actor when they first met. He said that they had been dating for seven and a half years in his social media announcement of their engagement in January 2018. In order to provide “pretty booze and tasty tunes,” the pair founded Tramp Stamp Grannys, a piano bar, in April 2018 in Los Angeles. The bar’s name was an homage to her vivacious grandma. In September 2018, the pair went on a date with Darren’s parents after he won an Emmy.
The net worth of Mia Swier
The estimated net worth of Mia Swier is about $1 million.