Wildlin Pierrevil Wants You to Get Way Too Into Broadway

I caught up with Wildlin Pierrevil between acts of a Broadway preview for "Wanted," formerly "Gun and Powder," a play about two Black sisters who are outlaws in the antebellum south. He's not in "Wanted," but he is a stage actor, though most people know him as a prolific personality on TikTok and Instagram.

Pierrevil’s TikTok career began one evening in 2020, after his graduation from theater school at the University of Florida, when he was living in his family's house in Orlando. "My family was like, 'Hey, food is ready.' It was like, 30 minutes before I had to go eat," Pierrevil said. "I posted a video of this Harry Potter trend, but maybe we shouldn't talk about that part." After dinner, he returned to thousands of likes. 

"I think people were looking for creators who were not, like, 14 years old doing the Renegade, and I was not 14 years old, and I was not doing the Renegade," he explains. Since then, he's accrued more than half a million followers.

That's been mostly separate from Pierrevil’s theatre fixation, which he says began when a high school soccer coach suggested he might be better suited to the school's production of "Into The Woods." By senior year, he was theater club president. When he moved to New York to perform in the off-Broadway play "In the Southern Breeze" at Rattlestick Theater, people behind the scenes were already recognizing him from his videos. 

"In the worst of times, I speculate that [my TikTok renown] might be a hindrance, because I just talk a lot online," Pierrevil said. "People mounting [Broadway] productions, they maybe want a less voiced version of a digital star to promote their show." Pierrevil's videos are mostly lighthearted and funny—his "Love Island" recaps have really taken off. He'll also get political, but even then, keeps it pretty light. "I'm talking about all of the things that I care about," he said. "I mean, it's my life."

And Pierrevil sticks to more mainstream productions, he says. "I've had friends who are like, 'Hey, I'm doing this gig,' and I'll show up to some random place in Brooklyn, and I'm like, that was… that was definitely interesting. I'm most often either doing something commercial on Broadway or Off Broadway."

He says he's more a guy who fills out a Tonys bingo card. "That's my jam. If you caught me with a night vision camera watching a matinee of "& Juliet," it would destroy my public image: 'Wow, this guy's too into it.'"

So I asked Pierrevil: What's good on Broadway these days?