About

Alkaio (al-KAY-oh) Thiele (theel) is a teenage actor, singer, and voiceover artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. It wasn't until he performed in his first main stage production of High School Musical with ICDT! Performing Arts Center at eleven years old that he fell in love with acting. Immediately following his final bows, he made an enthusiastic decision to pave a professional path for himself in the industry and has not looked back since.

Alkaio's first introduction to voiceover was with "Adventures in Odyssey," one of the longest-running radio drama and comedy programs still in production, where he fell in love with the work due to the show's collaborative recording practices. Since then Alkaio has become known as Janner Wingfeather in the "The Wingfeather Saga," a two season animated adaptation of author Andrew Peterson's fantasy-adventure book series, where he voices alongside Jodi Benson (The Little Mermaid), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean), and Henry Ian Cusick (Lost). In 2023, Alkaio manifested his preschool dream of becoming a Marvel superhero when he became the new voice of Spidey/Peter Parker beginning in season three of Disney Marvel's "Spidey and his Amazing Friends." His vocals can even be heard on the series' soundtrack album with more releases to come! Rounding out Alkaio's diverse voiceover work is his comedic Cartoon Network animated series and dramatic Amazon animated series, both of which have more news expected in early 2025 and late 2024.

Alkaio's TV debut was co-starring as Max Jr. alongside Mayim Bialik (Big Bang Theory) and Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story/Descendants 3) on FOX's "Call Me Kat." His experience on the show not only cemented his love for comedy, but also planted the idea of being a member of a close-knit set family. Alkaio found exactly that in his first series regular role playing David Henrie's eldest son, Roman Russo, in "Wizards Beyond Waverly Place" which premiered on Disney Channel and Disney+ in October 2024 and earned the title of the channel's most-watched series premiere ever on Disney+!

Alkaio was cast in back-to-back feature films within months of joining the entertainment industry. His film debut was in Max's "A Christmas Mystery" starring Violet McGraw (M3GAN), Oscar Nunez (The Office), and Beau Bridges. where he had the opportunity to shoot locally in Northern California. Within the same summer he joined the cast of Andrew Shea's festival award-winning film "I'll Be There" with Dorien Wilson (The Parkers) and Jasmine Batchelor (Law & Order) which is available to stream November 2024.

Alkaio's high level of performative singing, dancing, and improvisation have afforded him numerous notable regional theatre credits. In his role as Michael Hobbs in Ogunquit Playhouse's regional performance of "Elf," he shared the stage with Steven Booth (Broadway's Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) and award-winning actress Diana Huey (Nat'l Tour: Disney's Little Mermaid) while under the direction and choreography of Connor Ghallagher (Broadway's Beetlejuice). The Wallis' unique multimedia concert experience "Love Actually Live" had Alkaio play the lovesick teen, Sam, while he sang alongside a star-studded cast including American Idol's Grace Kinstler, singer/actor Drew Seeley (Walt Disney Company soundtracks), AGT's Madison Baez, The Voice's Chris Mann, actress Cheyenne Isabel Wells, and Citizen Queen's Nina Nelson. Alkaio received noteworthy praise for his singing, dancing, and unique take on his role of The Artful Dodger in 5-Star Theatricals' "Oliver!" in 2023. Each professional theatre opportunity plants another tiny but hopeful seed of a big Broadway future...

Outside of his professional projects, Alkaio loves to sing, beatbox, bike, hike, swim, climb, travel, film amateur short films, play team sports, solve New York Times puzzles, go to extreme lengths to make people laugh, adventure with his family, watch every touring Broadway musical, and participate in fellowship.