The famous Dyllón Burnside is an American actor and singer. He is known for his role as Ricky Evangelista, a dancer, in the FX television series Pose.
While at CAP21, Burnside starred in the Tupac-inspired musical Holler if Ya Hear Me on Broadway in 2014, where he played Anthony. While studying Burnside was also a part of NBC’s Peter Pan Live!, HBO’s High Maintenance, and performed in BeBe Winans’s musical Born For This in both Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Burnside has also worked as a film producer on the award-winning short The Jump and as a theatrical producer on Hold Up The Light at the non-profit Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. He has also taught performing arts workshops and has spoken at schools about how studying performing arts can be empowering and help young people find their means of self-expression.
Where did Dyllón Burnside go to college and high school?
Dyllón Burnside attended the New School. The New School is a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers.
Did Dyllón Burnsidego to film school?
He studied acting at the Loblolly Theatre in the old Sacred Heart Hospital under Pat Simmons. The Theatre. The Loblolly is committed to the presentation of original works, featuring primarily small casts, enjoying a diversity of styles.
Burnside got his first start at age 12 when he performed as the lead singer of the hip-hop/R&B boy band 3D with 2 of his cousins and was managed by his mother.
