In a city pulsing with theatre history, Yash Umesh Wala is adding his name to the Off-Broadway conversation - not with volume, but with precision.

In a modern-day staging of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Wala took on two roles that most audiences might blink past: Abram, the impulsive Capulet servant who helps ignite the opening conflict, and the Apothecary, a ghostlike figure whose decision seals Romeo’s fate. They appear briefly. They speak little. But in Wala’s hands, they mattered.