Age: 16
male
Alkaio (Al-KAY-oh) Thiele is a 12-year old actor, singer, and beatboxer from the San Francisco Bay Area and has been musical since he could make noise. At two years old he tied a shoebox around his neck and transformed into Disney's youngest marching drummer in his own reenactment of the Soundsational Parade! Every microphone (or even a look-alike) sent him into a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" or "The Star-Spangled Banner." Alkaio dabbled in performing arts at different points through his childhood, but it wasn't until he found I Can Do That! Performing Arts Center and was cast in their main stage High School Musical production, that he developed and decided to pursue a passion for acting. His deep emotion and introspection following his final performance led him to this conclusion: he never wanted that feeling to end. Within 3 months of making the decision to professionally pursue acting, he booked back-to-back feature film roles. His charisma, improvisation, and humor have made him an asset to each production and he has enjoyed the wide variety of--and the new friendships from--each new opportunity. When Alkaio isn't acting he is playing team sports, singing or beatboxing, biking, hiking the California landscape, or playing out front with the neighborhood kids until the streetlights come on.
Alkaio Thiele
Curly Shepard
for Curly Shepard in 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕦𝕥𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕤
Suggested by demurelyhydrated
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.
