Yohance myles biography of mahatma

Watching Yohance Myles, 33, on stage in the recent Fish Tale Group Theatre production of "The Laramie Project," you witness a continual character transformation not typical of most plays.

By simply removing or adding an article of clothing, or changing his dialect and tone, Myles effortlessly and completely inhabits each of the 11 roles he plays. Putting on a striped tie, he becomes a priest overseeing a funeral.

Yohance myles biography of mahatma

Pulling on a pair of plastic gloves, he becomes an emergency-room doctor in the midst of a procedure. Stripped to basic black clothing, jaw clenched, words tight and eyes narrowed, he becomes the accused. The continuous shifting about on stage parallels the multiple hats Myles wears each day in real life in his role as a father, husband, teacher and actor.

While his mother, Wanda Webb-Moore, fostered the creative tendencies of her second oldest of five children, it was seeing a performance of "Peter Pan" in the fifth grade that sparked the Birmingham, Ala., native's intere