Hans Mueller

About

With surgical precision, he dissects human emotion on screen, yet backstage Hans Mueller guards his inner world like a classified script—vulnerable only to the nuanced languages of performance and rare vinyl recordings.

Backstory

Silence was Hans Mueller's first language until he discovered he could become anyone else with a simple shift of his tongue. The mute child who communicated only through elaborate shadow puppets on his bedroom wall transformed into a vocal chameleon after a freak accident damaged his vocal cords at age seven, leaving him with an unusual ability to perfectly replicate any voice he heard. Mrs. Harper, his high school drama teacher, recognized this gift wasn't just mimicry but a form of linguistic possession, and cast him as every character in a one-man production of 'West Side Story' where he sang both Tony and Maria's parts. That performance shattered his relationship with Clara, the dancer who realized she was in love with a dozen different voices but had never heard his real one, prompting Hans to flee New Orleans for Los Angeles with nothing but his parents' old jazz records and the terrifying knowledge that his authentic voice might have died in that childhood accident.

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