the progression of glee

post glee

since glee took its final bow in March of 2015, here are (some of) the major things the cast members have been up to since then...

*I stopped editing this a while ago and no longer keep up with most of the cast so im missing so much so feel free to comment and I'll update*

Lea Michele
- 2015 published You First journal book
- 2015-2016 Scream Queens (canceled after two seasons)
- 2017 Places album
- 2017 The Mayor (canceled after one season)
- 2017 headliner at Elsie Fest
- 2018 LMDC Tour
- 2019 got married
- 2019 Christmas in the City Album
- 2019 Same Time, Next Christmas
- 2019 Christmas Concerts in NY
- 2020 lost hello fresh sponsorship
- 2020 son Ever Leo Reich was born
- 2021 Forever album
- 2021 Spring Awakening reunion benefit
- 2022 presented and performed at the Tonys with the original Spring Awakening cast
- 2022 Fanny Brice in Funny Girl on Broadway
- 2022 Performed in the Thanksgiving Day parade
- 2024 daughter Emery Sol Reich was born
- 2025 Florence in Chess on Broadway

Darren Criss
- 2015 Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway
- 2015 Founded Elsie Fest
- 2016 headliner at Elsie Fest
- 2017 Music Meister (Supergirl & The Flash)
- 2017 Computer Games EP
- 2017 headliner at Elsie Fest
- 2017 Homework EP
- 2018 American Crime Story Versace
- 2018 Tramp Stamp Granny's
- 2018 LMDC Tour
- 2018 won an Emmy for ACSV
- 2018 headliner at Elsie Fest
- 2019 got married
- 2019 headliner at Elsie Fest
- 2020 Hollywood
- 2020 Royalties
- 2020 DEC•AID virtual concert
- 2021 That Thing I Do podcast
- 2021 Masquerade EP & Zoom sessions
- 2021 headliner at Elsie Fest
- 2021 A Very Darren Crissmas album
- 2021 Crissmas Album listening party
- 2021 Hosted & Performed in The Queen Family Singalong
- 2021 Drunk on Christmas music video release
- 2021 Performed in the Thanksgiving Day parade
- 2021 Performed in A Home for the Holidays special
- 2021 Crissmas concert in nyc
- 2022 daughter Bluesy Belle was born
- 2022 Bobby in American Buffalo on Broadway
- 2022 hosted Tony's Act One (and wrote the opening song Set the Stage)
- 2022 D23 Expo Disney songs performance
- 2022 Cafe Carlyle Crissmas residency
- 2022 Crissmas concerts tour
- 2023 Mardi Gras parade and performance
- 2023 Carol Burnett 90th birthday celebration performance
- 2023 LA / Australia tour
- 2023 Crissmas tour
- 2023 Performed at the National Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington D.C.
- 2023 Rose Parade
- 2024 Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors off-Broadway
- 2024 son Brother László Criss was born
- 2024 originated the role of Oliver in Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway
- 2024 won a Tony for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Oliver in MHE
- 2025 cameo in Exorcistic: The Rock Musical Off-Broadway
- 2025 Presented at Jingle Ball
- 2026 Mercury Lounge Concert
- 2026 Tony Nominations Presenter

Dianna Agron
- 2015 Tumbledown
- 2015 Bare
- 2016 McQueen
- 2017 The Crash
- 2017 Carlyle Residency #1
- 2017 Novitiate
- 2017 Hollow in the Land
- 2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet
- 2019 Headlock / Against the Clock
- 2019 Carlyle Residency #2
- 2019 Berlin, I Love You
- 2019 Symphony Space Selected Shorts
- 2019 FFFest Panel: How to Break in & Navigate Your First Film Deal
- 2020 Abracashoes
- 2020 Shiva Baby
- 2020 Robot Chicken
- 2021 The Laureate
- 2022 Carlyle Residency #3
- 2022 As They Made Us
- 2023 Acidman
- 2023 Clock
- 2023 The Chosen One (El Elegido) on Netflix
- 2023 performed at the Carlyle for J. Crew party
- 2024 Carlyle Residency #4
- 2025 filming movies
- 2026 Carlyle Residency #5

Kevin McHale
- 2019 Showmance Podcast
- 2019 released Boy EP
- 2019 Showmance Live Podcast in NYC
- 2020 appearance in Royalties
- 2022-present And That's What You REALLY missed podcast
- 2022 RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race
- 2024 William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
- 2025 William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Off-Broadway

Jenna Ushkowitz
- 2016 Dawn in Waitress on Broadway
- 2017 Katy Perry Swish Swish music video
- 2018 won a Tony for producer of Once on This Island
- 2019 Showmance Podcast
- 2019 Showmance Live Podcast in NYC
- 2020 won a Tony for producer of The Inheritance
- 2021 got married
- 2022-present And That's What You REALLY missed podcast
- 2022 RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race
- 2022 daughter Emma was born
- 2024 son Graham was born

Naya Rivera
- 2015 Devious Maids
- 2015 son Josey Holly Dorsey was born
- 2016 published her memoir: Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up
- 2017 Mad Families
- 2017-2020 Step Up: High Water
- 2018 Auditioned for Anita in West Side Story Remake
- 2019 My Heart EP
- 2020 Sugar Rush episode
- 2021 Batman: The Long Halloween

Heather Morris
- 2016 son Owen Bartlett Hubbell was born
- 2017 Dancing with the Stars
- 2019 started The Dance Room Podcast
- 2026 11 to midnight Off-Broadway

Amber Riley
- 2015 One Christmas Wish
- 2015 Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North, in NBC's live performance of The Wiz
- 2016 Effie White in the West End's Dreamgirls
- 2016 performed the national anthem at the second game of the 2016 NHL Stadium Series featuring the Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche at Coors Field
- 2017 Leading Ladies debut album, Songs from the Stage
- 2019 Audrey II, the carnivorous singing plant, in Little Shop of Horrors at Pasadena Playhouse
- 2020 RILEY Ep
- 2020 Creepin' music video
- 2022 Sang El Tango de Roxanne in Step Into... The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough
- 2022 Single Black Female
- 2022 won The Masked Singer
- 2023 Performed "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from the 1964 movie Mary Poppins on the primetime CBS special Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
- 2024 Single Black Female 2: Simone's Revenge

Chord Overstreet
- 2016 4th Man Out
- 2016 Homeland
- 2017 Tree House Tapes EP
- 2017 Hold On
- 2020 appearance in Royalties
- 2021 Stone Man EP
- 2021-2024 Chad in Acapulco
- 2022 Jake Russell in Falling for Christmas
- 2024 Sam in Doctor Odyssey

Matthew Morrison
- 2016 J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland on Broadway
- 2016 appeared alongside Megan Hilty in a summer evening of Broadway and other songs with The New York Pops at the Forest Hills Stadium in Queens
- 2017 son Revel James Makai was born
- 2019-2020 "dance captain" on BBC One's The Greatest Dancer
- 2019 Trevor in American Horror Story
- 2020 released Disney Dreamin' with Matthew Morrison album
- 2020 Grinch in NBC's production of Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical Live!
- 2021 daughter Phoenix Monroe Morrison was born
- 2022 judge on So You Think You Can Dance
- 2023 A Paris Christmas Waltz movie
- 2024 Billy Flynn in Chicago in Japan
- 2026 Bobby Darin in Just in Time on Broadway