Dylan Riley Snyder

At 27 years old, Dylan Riley Snyder has this physical status:

Dylan Riley Jacob Snyder (born January 24, 1997) is an American actor.

Snyder began his acting career in community theatre at the age of five, performing as Young Tarzan in the 2006 Broadway musical, Life During Wartime, and as Milton in the Disney XD comedy series Kickin' It.

Early life

Snyder was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the son of Ashley and Les Snyder. Cassidy, Snyder's older sister, has just one sibling. He grew up attending her musical theater rehearsals as a youth, and his older sister was active in community theatre. Brent Jones, a director, knew he'd be able to direct, and his family began allowing him to audition, resulting in his first speaking role in a community theatre production of A Christmas Carol.

When they needed a child actor, writer, and producer, Tiny Tim" Snyder's appearance at "Tiny Tim" attracted the attention of local actor, writer, and director Tina Fitch, who was captivated with his craft and would continue to cast him in several University of Alabama (U of A) productions when they needed a child actor. "Dill Harris" in Theatre Tuscaloosa's production of "Buster" and "Michael Darling" in U. A.'s production of Assassins, "In the United States' production of Pippin and "Billy Moore" in the U of A's production of Assassins, he was one of his early community theatre credits.

The Snyder family migrated to Petal, Mississippi, in 2003. Snyder appeared with the Mississippi Boys Choir and the Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera, despite his boy soprano range. He was chosen for the American Boys Choir in 2005, but it was also during this time that Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on Mississippi, causing the Snyder family to return to Alabama, where family friend Tina Fitch suggested that he try his luck in professional theatre in New York City.

Personal life

While his father and sister were still living in Alabama, Snyder and his mother were living in Los Angeles during filming for Kickin' It. He is a founding member of Broadway Kids Care as well as a former member of the Boy Scouts of America. Rubik's Cubes, origami, juggling, billiards, and chess were among his hobbies in 2011.

Snyder began a relationship with Sonny in December 2014 with Chance actress Allisyn Ashley Arms. On New's Year's Day 2019 they became engaged and married on September 18 of that year.

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Career

Snyder and his mother began planning to move to New York City on August 5, five months after his ninth birthday, while his father stayed at his Mississippi home and sister Emma attended college in Alabama. He began performing in professional auditions and, after competing with hundreds of boys for the role, he became cast member of Disney's Broadway musical adaptation of Tarzan. Snyder, who landed the role, studied gymnastics to meet the physical demands of the job, as well as worked with a Disney vocal coach to learn how to project his voice. Snyder performed on Broadway in September 2006 and then, as is normal with demanding children's roles on Broadway, alternated with Alex Rutherford in the role until the show's closing in July 2007.

Snyder continued to grow his musical abilities, including ballet lessons with Yuka Kawazu, tap dance lessons with Janine Molinari, voice lessons with Richard Lissamore, dialect lessons with Amy Stoller, and Etiquette lessons at the Etiquette School of Manhattan. During this time, he began landing as a model, appeared in print ads for H&M and Timothy & Co. and in commercials for Univest Bank, Benadryl, and Chuck E. Cheese's, as well as launching television, landing lead roles in two episodes of Nickelodeon's animated film "Mega Pets" and "Casablanca." Snyder starred "Leo Amatog," an autistic boy who meets a self-absorbed Chicago architect during an overnight bus ride in the short film Valley of the Moon in February 2009.

In Todd Solondz' dramatic comedy Life During Wartime, Snyder appeared as "Timmy Maplewood" in September 2009. For almost a year, the black comedy tour ran for almost a year before being limited to a limited number in July 2010. "The most memorable of all is Timmy (Dylan Riley Snyder)," and with Variety writer Todd McCarthy writing "The most memorable of all is young, freckle-faced Snyder, playing a young, freckle-faced Snyder, struggling with the messiest of adult problems and confronted with potential psychological issues he can't comprehend," the film's director received critical acclaim as well as awards for Snyder.

Snyder resurrects "Young Horace Robedaux," a role based on Pulitzer Prize winning author Horton Foote's father in the epic nine-part off-Broadway adaptation of The Orphans' Home Cycle in November 2009. The show was critically acclaimed, and Snyder, as well as the rest of the cast, creative team, and producers, was honoured with a special Drama Desk Award recognizing "the breadth of vision" that inspired the incredible direction, lighting, costumes, music, and sound that made The Orphanage's Home Cycle the season's best theatre performance. The play itself would continue to win the Outer Critics Circle Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, which will run until May 2010.

Snyder landed his first comedic role as a fun honors student turned karate competitor in the Disney XD original comedy series Kickin' It, in the summer of 2010. Snyder had no martial arts experience prior to landing the role, and when asked about the karate aspect of the show, he said, "We have choreographers teaching us the techniques but I love doing the kicks." I lived in New York for five years before this, and while I was there, I concentrated on theater. I did a lot of dance, so getting into karate was a little easier for me." Snyder and his mother were shot in the summer of 2010, and when Disney XD announced it had green-lit the pilot in Los Angeles in November. Kickin' It premiered in June 2011 and quickly became Disney XD's number one original series in the network's history. The Disney XD show had been renewed for a second season in September 2011. On November 5, 2012, the network announced that the series had been renewed for a third season and would go into production in January 2013.

Dylan Riley Snyder appeared on wife Allisyn Ashley Arms' YouTube series Astrid Clover, where he portrays Astrid's boom operator, Boom Guy.

Snyder played Milton, the snoopy school newspaper editor/reporter, in Mamaboy in 2015. Mamaboy is about a high school freshman who must conceal the fact that he has become pregnant from his family, friends, and the school staff, as well as his baseball coach (played by Gary Busey).

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