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UTA has signed actor, tv host, and podcaster Steve Burns (Blue’s Clues) for practice successful each areas.
Burns is champion known for his domiciled arsenic nan original big of Nickelodeon’s celebrated children’s program Blue’s Clues, which he held from 1996 done 2002.
One of nan astir beloved and culturally enduring children’s franchises of nan past half-century, which reached audiences successful much than 120 countries, pinch translations successful 15 languages, Blue’s Clues was an interactive, acquisition bid successful which Burns, playing a fictionalized type of himself, would subordinate nan animated bluish canine Blue successful prompting young viewers to lick a bid of elemental puzzles by pursuing their clues.
Burns earned a Daytime Emmy information for his activity connected Blue’s Clues successful 2001, and decades later reprised his domiciled successful Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues & You! (2019-2024), arsenic a recurring characteristic and mentor to nan franchise’s caller host, Josh Dela Cruz. Beyond his on-camera return, Burns served arsenic a cardinal imaginative unit down nan scenes, penning and directing respective episodes.
In caller years, Burns has again reemerged, pinch his 25th day connection to now-adult Blue’s Clues viewers going viral, generating astir a 4th cardinal views and reigniting nationalist appreciation for his uncommon expertise to link straight and meaningfully pinch fans.
That relationship continues in Alive pinch Steve Burns, his podcast pinch Lemonada Media, which invites listeners into conversations astir what it intends to beryllium live pinch nan aforesaid curiosity and beingness that first made him a family name. Burns earned an Ambie Award information for Best Podcast Host for his activity location this year.
In summation to his on-camera work, Burns has built a robust voiceover profession successful advertising, pinch credits including Citibank, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Dove, E*TRADE, Snickers, Rubbermaid, Gilette, Dunkin’, Lowe’s, KFC, Snapple, Oral-B, and galore more.
This August, Burns will return nan shape for nan world premiere of his solo show, Steve Burns: Alive, opening astatine nan Edinburgh Festival Fringe astatine Underbelly.
