Rafael Casal

Rafael Casal

Born: August 8, 1985
Rafael Santiago Casal (born August 8, 1985) is an American writer, performer, and producer originally from the Bay Area. Rafael's first TV appearance was performing on three seasons of HBO's Def Poetry, and as a creator online with millions of YouTube/Facebook views for his original music, poetry, web shorts, and political commentary. His theater-in-verse work has brought him around the country and the world both in the realm of activism and arts performance at hundreds of colleges and venues. Rafael is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the BARS workshop at The Public Theater in New York.

Movies for Rafael Casal...

Wildcat
Title: Wildcat
Character: O.E. Parker
Released: May 3, 2024
Type: Movie
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief.
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2
Title: Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2
Character: Self - 'Brad Wolfe'
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Through candid interviews with the creative minds behind the show, and exclusive on-set footage, discover how the talented team that powered "Loki: Season 2" raised the stakes for this latest MCU adventure. Witness imaginative costumes, elaborate environments, and far-out variants come to life, meet new allies and foes, and time-slip across the Multiverse.
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We Were Hyphy
Title: We Were Hyphy
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: Movie
A love song to the artists, dance, music, slang, clothes and, most importantly of all, the people who came of age during the Hyphy Movement. ​ We were there, we were hyphy.
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Title: Blindspotting
Character: Miles Jones
Released: June 13, 2021
Type: TV
Ashley was nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, leaving her to navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis when she’s forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.
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Title: Loki
Character: Hunter X-5 / Brad Wolfe
Released: June 9, 2021
Type: TV
After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.
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Title: Amend: The Fight for America
Character: Self
Released: February 17, 2021
Type: TV
When the United States of America was founded, the ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to all people. These are the stories of the brave Americans who fought to right the nation’s wrongs and enshrine the values we hold most dear into the Constitution — with liberty and justice for all.
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Title: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Character: Mr. Tophat
Released: October 11, 2019
Type: TV
Each season of this horror anthology series follows a different group of kids, members of the Midnight Society, as they discover terrifying curses and creatures.
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Bad Education
Title: Bad Education
Character: Kyle Contreras
Released: September 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
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Title: We Gon' Be Alright
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 2019
Type: TV
"We Gon' Be Alright" is a digital series that explores the social divide over race in the 21st Century United States. Inspired by Jeff Chang's best-selling, critically acclaimed collection of essays, we discover a nation of historically unprecedented diversity becoming more separate and more unequal. Each episode examines a different aspect of a profound puzzle: Silicon Valley resegregation, Hollywood images, Harvard admissions, and more. The series asks the questions: why and how did we become so divided? What can we do now to be alright?
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Blindspotting
Title: Blindspotting
Character: Miles
Released: July 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
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x Infinity
Title: x Infinity
Released: March 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Visual album that consists of all the videos for the 18 track album, x Infinity, by spoken word artist, rapper, and author George Watsky.
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Title: Hobbes & Me
Character: Calvin
Released: March 10, 2014
Type: TV
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal recreate their favorite Calvin and Hobbes moments.
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First Sight
Title: First Sight
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A sci-fi romantic comedy about falling asleep to find the person of your dreams.
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Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting
Title: Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Illustrates and explains how the 2018 film Blindspotting was created. Features interviews with all involved in the film.