About
Myk
Myk was born on January 30th
in the
Tampa Bay area, where he lived until he was five. After a
brief residence in Cleveland, Ohio, He and his Sister moved
to Rome, GA where they stayed for another five years, until
they finally settled in Russellville, Alabama.
Myk seemed to be a normal, quiet kid in those days,
spending most of his time either playing ball or fishing in
one of the many ponds, lakes and creeks near his home.
Little did the residents of his tranquil Alabama town know
that beneath his quiet southern exterior beat the
revolutionary heart of a slightly left of center, minimally
radical, and moderately progressive artist. Despite this
hazardous dissimilarity, Myk fit in with the other kids in
a manner that could only be described as “almost normally”.
As Myk grew up, he began to develop three great passions;
football, music, and getting cheap laughs in study hall.
Oh, and girls. He seemed to be on a surefire path to
coaching in some small southern town when he failed algebra
and his father obliged him to quit the football team.
Anguished and distraught, Myk was forced to replace his
glamorous dream of wearing polyester shorts and screaming
like a maniac in the face maladjusted high school kids. But
with what? He had no idea. Until one day his sister starred
in the Russellville High School Drama Department’s maverick
production of the revolutionist musical “Fame!”. As Myk
watched his sister perform in this undeniable work of pure
genius, he had a moment of clarity; “This is exactly the
kind of egotistical and self centered work that just might
make me happy”. And there went the seed, into the ground.
From the beginning, Myk married his passion for the theatre
with his passion for music, forming the award winning* rock
band “Ruckus” at the tender age of sixteen (*they took
third place in the local talent show). As time went on
Myk’s football dreams began creeping back in his life, as
he rejoined the football team for his senior year (he
switched to general math, and got an A).
Upon graduation Myk was at a crossroads, not knowing which
dream to follow. Enter Kenneth Washington from the
University of Utah, who convinced Myk to leave behind the
beguiling aspirations of small town football prestige, and
come to The University of Utah to study acting (after Mr.
Washington assured Myk that Utah did in fact have a
football team). And so the seed began to grow.
After Utah, Myk went on to The Shakespeare Theatre in
Washington DC, where he spent two years moving furniture… I
mean acting. Just when he thought his back might be
seriously injured from all the “acting” he was doing in DC,
he met a certain curly headed New York agent who promised
him fame and fortune- Or at least a decent job tending bar-
in the Big Apple. Myk accepted this offer, and on January
7th,
1996, he moved to New York in the middle of the biggest
blizzard the city’s history. After the snow melted, Myk
began his career as a professional actor, and has been at
it ever since, starring in film, TV and on Broadway. And so
the seed burst forth and blossomed.
Myk currently resides in Manhattan. When he is not acting
he can be seen playing guitar and singing for the
subversive rock super-group “Utah Mafia”, and writing long,
cheeky, egocentric bios about himself.
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