Rafael Casal

Rafael Santiago Casal (born August 8, 1985) is an American writer, performer, and producer originally from the Bay Area. Casal's first television appearance was performing on three seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and as a creator online with millions of YouTube/Facebook views for his 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. Casal is the co-founder and artistic director of the BARS workshop at The Public Theater in New York.
On Nickelodeon, he played the Carnival of Doom's ringmaster, Mr. Tophat, in the first season of the second revival of Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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