Darin De Paul

Darin De Paul is a voice actor. He was a guest player in the first campaign and appeared in several one-shots.

Critical Role Productions and D&D
After collegue, Darin De Paul worked as an apprentice at the Burt Reynolds theater in Florida the following year. At that time, Matthew Mercer's mother was also an apprentices at the theater, Mercer's grandmother was one of the producers and Burt's personal assistant, and Mercer's father worked in the lighting booth. For his last show at the theater Darin played Motel on Fiddler on the Roof musical, and of the actors playing in the musical suggested to play a game of Dungeon & Dragons between shows. Darin, other actors from the musical, and Matthew Mercer's mother gathered four times to play D&D, where Darin portrayed his first D&D character illusionist thief named Sprigg. The last ended with total party kill at the hands of hobgoblins where Sprigg was the only survivor. In 2013, for his first voice over job in Los Angeles, Darin was hired by Blizzards to portray orcs in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, where he met met Matthew Mercer for the first time and connected with over diner.

Darin De Paul appeared as a guest player in and  as Sprigg, also joining to the after-show discussion. In March 2020, he appeared in the playing the non-player character Dr. Samuel Hayden, reprising his role of the character from the 2016 Doom and Doom Eternal video games on which the one-shot was based.

Darin made a brief appearance in after the gameplay and was also mentioned by Slayer's Take huntmaster Vanessa Cyndrial, as a friend of the guild and a member of the city's finest performance troupe who shared cookies with her.

Darin portrays Kerrion Stonefell in The Legend of Vox Machina animated series.

Player characters

 * Sprigg, gnome rogue ( and )
 * Mozuu the Chosen, uruk paladin ( and )

Other work
De Paul voices Reinhardt in the video game Overwatch. He is one of three of Overwatch ' s main voice cast, alongside Matthew Mercer and Anjali Bhimani, and one of four of its overall voice cast, as Travis Willingham has a minor role in the game, to appear in Critical Role productions. His other video game voice work includes Revenant in Apex Legends, Ardyn Izunia in Final Fantasy XV, and Emperor Calus in Destiny 2.

Trivia

 * On Talks Machina, the host Brian Wayne Foster liked to "#ThankMyGuests" with names that were either mispronounced or wordplay that sounded close to their names. Here are the names for Darin De Paul:
 * Da-Rin "The Rock" Johnson
 * Darling of All