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Chris Colfer may be the lovable, breakout star on FOX’s toe-tapping hit Glee, but don’t let his camera-friendly good looks and fancy footwork fool you – this kid’s got brains!

The 21-year-old took some time away from McKinley High this weekend, to debut his latest project Struck by Lightning at the Tribeca Film Festival.  Colfer, who not only wrote the film’s screenplay, also stars in it along with Hollywood mainstays Allison Janney, Dermot Mulroney, Polly Bergen, Christina Hendricks and Sarah Hyland, raved that seeing his words come to life was better than he could’ve ever imagined.

A lot of the stuff is exactly how I had it in my mind. Or better… They are really the people I envisioned when I was writing this. It’s a trip…

The film, which follows a high school outcast who starts a magazine and uses it to blackmail some of the popular kids, was inspired by events from Coffers actual high school experience.

Geez – we didn’t know that kind of stuff happened in real life!  Check out the trailer for Struck by Lightning below!