You might have heard the story about a guy named Darren Stephens being arrested for having sex on the Chicago lakeshore. Well the sad fact is, there are OTHER people in the Chicago area named Darrens Stephens. Even other ACTORS named Darren Stephens! I'm one of them -- and I'm a different age than that Darren Stephens, live at a different address and have NEVER been arrested for anything, anywhere!

If you do a Google search in Chicago, you'll see plenty of references to my work. I'm an actor, comedy improviser and writer. I'm best known for being one of the top voiceover talents in the city. HEY! If you hired Darren Stephens to do voiceover work for you in the last fifteen years, you hired the GOOD Darren -- not the BAD and blue/not blue Darren!

It's tough having a name that everyone remembers. Here's hoping you'll remember that there's more than meets the eye -- or the ear -- when it comes to Darren Stephens.

THAT Darren Stephens, who claims to be an actor with the Blue Man Group, was arrested on December 29, 2008, for public indecency along with an assistant principal at Maine East High School in Chicago.Daily Herald: School official, Blue Man arrested for public indecency (December 30, 2008)

Maine East High School assistant principal Michael Pressler and alleged Blue Man actor Darren Stephens were arrested at approximately 5:45 p.m. on December 29, 2008, for public indecency after Stephens was reportedly caught performing oral sex on Pressler on a Chicago park bench. Both were charged with a misdemeanor and scheduled to appear in court on February 6, 2009.Daily Herald: School official, Blue Man arrested for public indecency (December 30, 2008) TMZ: Blue Man Tried to Do Man in Public (December 30, 2008)

A spokesman for the Blue Man Group made this statement, "The person arrested is not currently and never has been a member of the Blue Man Group."TMZ: Blue Man Suspect May Not Be Blue at All (December 30, 2008)

1. Aka: Blue Man, BMG and CMP
2. Family oriented comedy
3. Formed in 1988
4. Founded by Phil Stanton, Chris Wink and Matt Goldma
5. Made up of three mute performers known as Blue Men
6. The men are covered in blue grease paint
7. They perform in black clothing
8. They play a mixture of idiosyncratic instruments including a Zither, PVC Instrument, Tubulum, Airpoles, Drumbone, Drumulum, Dogulum, and others