Joshua Boone is an American actor.[1] [2] [3] He starred opposite Zora Howard in the 2019 film Premature.[4] For his performance in the 2022 Tyler Perry/Netflix film A Jazzman's Blues, Boone was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards.[5]
Boone made his Broadway debut at the Palace Theatre in 2014, in the jukebox musical Holler If Ya Hear Me. In 2024, he played Dallas “Dally” Winston in the musical The Outsiders, earning a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.[6]
Boone was born in Portsmouth, Virginia.[7] In 2010, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts with a BFA in Theatre Performance; he returned as commencement speaker to the class of 2024. [8]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Journeymen | Booby | Short film |
| 2013 | Dyce and Devil | Dyce | Short film |
| 2015 | Brooklove | Ian | Short film |
| 2019 | Premature | Isaiah | |
| 2020 | Wheels | Terry | |
| 2021 | Mother's Milk | Sparrow | |
| 2022 | A Jazzman's Blues | Bayou | |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Willie | 1 episode | ||
| 2013 | The Big Gulp | Unknown | 1 episode | |
| 2014 | Downtown Girls | Quentin | 1 episode | |
| 2015 | Fan Girl | Darvan | TV movie | |
| 2016 | MacGyver | Gunner/Hunter | 1 episode | |
| 2017 | Salamander | Craig Anders | TV movie | |
| 2018 | Seven Seconds | Khalil | 1 episode |
| Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Holler If Ya Hear Me | Darius | Palace Theatre | Broadway | |
| 2018 | Network | Frank Hackett | Belasco Theatre | Broadway | |
| 2022 | Skeleton Crew | Dez | Samuel J. Friedman Theatre | Broadway; Drama Desk nominee | |
| 2024 | The Outsiders | Dallas "Dally" Winston | Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre | Broadway; Tony nominee; Drama Desk nominee |