Alex Boniello is an American actor, musician and Tony Award winning producer originally from Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, USA, he attended Wood-Ridge High School and Wagner College where he focused on acting.
History[]
During his time at Wood-Ridge High School, he portrayed Lumiere in a stage version of Beauty and the Beast and went on to portray other roles such as Mark Cohen in Rent. After graduating, he attended Wagner College where he majored in the drama department. Though he acted as early as 2012, he professionally began to work with a theatre company in 2013 when he toured with the cast of American Idiot as part of its ensemble. A year later in 2014, he acted in 21 Chump Street and is one of the original cast members on its album.
In 2015, he toured with an Off-Broadway cast of Brooklynite. That year, he was also casted as the voice of Moritz in Spring Awakening, he stayed with the company during its transfer into Broadway and finished his time with them in 2016 after completing a full run. In 2018, he replaced Mike Faist in the Broadway edition of Dear Evan Hansen and played the role of Connor Murphy until its end in 2020.
In 2019, he became a producer for Hadestown and won a Tony Award for Best Musical that year. The following year in 2020, he alongside his Dear Evan Hansen co-star Andrew Barth Feldman, hosted Broadway Jackbox on Twitch in order to raise money for Broadway for Racial Justice and the Actor's Fund. Throughout the pandemic, he continued making gaming content on Twitch on his person channel.
On the 8th of January 2021, he released an Extended Play single titled Hi on multiple several platforms. he would then go on to write a children's book titled A Case of the Zaps which was published in 2022. By 2023, he portrayed a ghost named Crash in the American version of the television show Ghosts. On the 24th of March that year, he was casted as the Jack of Diamonds in the Disney+ film, Descendants: The Rise of Red.
Trivia[]
- He proposed to his long-term girlfriend, April Lavalle on the 9th of May 2021.
- He has suffered from an anxiety disorder since he was seventeen years old.
- He is known as alexboniello on the streaming service, Twitch.
- He is a user on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Cameo.
- He is also a musician and posts where music can be listened to.
- He owns a cat, images of which can be found on his Instagram.
- For the Rise of Red premiere, Boniello wore a red suit with a Jack of Diamonds card in his pocket, a reference to his character's allegiance and role in the Crimson Army.