Alex Wyse
Acting
Biography
Alex Wyse is an American stage and screen actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for playing Kyle in Marvel's Iron Fist, Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the Beautiful, Max Weinbaum in the Broadway production of Good Night, Oscar, Georg Zirschnitz in the 2015 Deaf West Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, and co-writing/directing the feature film Summoning Sylvia. Wyse grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated from Beachwood High School. He later graduated from Boston University with a degree in theatre On television, Wyse has appeared in multiple roles since 2010 including Elsbeth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two, Bored to Death, Switched at Birth, The Bold and the Beautiful, Marvel's Iron Fist, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Masters of Sex On film, he appeared opposite America Ferrera in X/Y. On Broadway, he made his debut in Lysistrata Jones, which ran at the Walter Kerr Theatre from 2011 to 2012. He then played schoolboy Georg Zirschnitz in the Deaf West Theatre's production of Spring Awakening, and in 2018, he joined the musical Waitress, as Ogie. In 2023, Wyse played Max Weinbaum in the Tony-winning Broadway production of Doug Wright's Good Night, Oscar at the Belasco Theatre opposite Sean Hayes. He also co-produced the Broadway transfer of Heidi Schreck's play What the Constitution Means to Me, which opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on March 31, 2019. He received nominations for a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award for acting as part of the producing team. Off-Broadway, he has been seen in Lysistrata Jones, Triassic Parq, Bare, and Ride the Cyclone. In 2013–2014, he toured with the national company of Wicked, playing the role of Boq. In 2015, he appeared opposite Evan Rachel Wood and Rumer Willis in For the Record in Los Angeles. He frequently collaborates with Wesley Taylor, the two having co-written and directed their critically acclaimed feature film Summoning Sylvia released in 2023. They also co-created, wrote, directed, edited, and starred in the digital series Indoor Boys, which was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award and thirty-three Indie Series Awards, winning twelve, including Best Comedy, Comedy Writing, Comedy Directing, and Best Lead Actor for Wyse, before being acquired by Here TV. In 2024, Wyse and Taylor co-directed Cellino v. Barnes, currently playing off-Broadway at Asylum NYC. Wyse's other work includes co-writing the book, lyrics, and music for A Commercial Jingle For Regina Comet with Ben Fankhauser, which played off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater in 2021. And in December of 2023, Wyse starred in the solo musical “Picking Up Speed” off-Broadway at Royal Family Productions, for which he wrote the book, music, and lyrics.
Known For
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Modern Family
The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
NCIS: Los Angeles
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
Elsbeth
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Johnny Carson's couch. He is a brilliant scientist out of touch with his own feelings, and she is a single working mother ahead of her time. The series chronicles their unusual lives, romance, and unlikely pop culture trajectory.
Masters of Sex
The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.
Switched at Birth
It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
A former professional dancer, Brooke, and her brother Cary, an aspiring actor, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.
The Other Two
The series chronicles the personal life (and the wild lifestyle) of Rebecca Wright, a tough-as-nails judge serving on the Los Angeles County Circuit Court, whose time off the bench is spent partying and displaying a reckless behavior. Her reputation is about to be tamed—and judged—by Robby Shoemaker, a eight-year-old boy whose parents Rebecca put behind bars. He might be the one that can turn Rebecca's life around.
Bad Judge
The story follows the lives of Andrew, an employee at an internet dating site who dreams of meeting the girl of his dreams, and Zelda, a no-nonsense lawyer who was raised by a hippie mother and carries a rebellious streak. By an accidental chance of fate, Zelda meets Andrew to resolve a mismatch dating dispute and these two single people suddenly find themselves falling for each other.
A to Z
Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.
Marvel's Iron Fist
‘Broadway Whodunit,’ from the creators of ‘Broadway Jackbox,’ drops your favorite Broadway stars in the middle of a live, unscripted murder mystery.
Broadway Whodunit
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
X/Y
A new comedy series about two gay guys who don't leave the apartment, INDOOR BOYS follows Nate and Luke as they navigate their no-boundaries friendship.
Indoor Boys
A gay bachelor party turned spooky when sinister spirits are suddenly summoned.
Summoning Sylvia
When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside her stomach since she was seven.
Stomach People
Down-and-out Xavier seizes an opportunity with an older man on a lonely night in New York City.
XaveMePlease
Joyce, a whimsical woman in her seventies, rents out her spare room on a vacation rental website to Anthony, a young gay man recently cast out of his family home. What results is a comedic and dramatic whirlwind of two opposing souls who butt heads, yearn for connection, and ultimately overcome their own emotional hurdles to accept kindness into their own lives.
Actual Nobodies
"Time eats all his children in the end." Ride the Cyclone is a dark comedy musical by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. It follows the spirits of six Canadian teenagers from the St. Cassian High School chamber choir who die in a freak roller coaster accident. Trapped in limbo, they compete in a talent show judged by a mechanical fortune-teller, with the prize being resurrection.
Ride the Cyclone
An act of violence in the shower room of a boy's prep school gets out of hand and all of the participants are traumatized.