Dylan Wald is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at Minnesota Dance Theatre & the Dance Institute and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet, the School of American Ballet, The Juilliard School, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Dylan joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2014 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2015. In 2019 he became a soloist and was named principal dancer in 2020. In 2017, Dylan participated in the Nederlands Dans Theater Summer Intensive. In 2019, he performed with Seattle Dance Collective for its inaugural season.