Poetry At 18, Casal appeared on 3 seasons of HBO's
Def Poetry Jam while touring, performing, and teaching nationwide with YouthSpeaks. He is a two-time Brave New Voice Poetry Slam Festival champion.
Music Casal has released several mixtapes online, including
As Good As Your Word (2008),
Monster (2009), and
Mean Ones (2012). He also collaborated with best friend
Daveed Diggs and
Chinaka Hodge to release
The Getback Mixtape, vol. 1 (2007) and
The BAY BOY Mixtape (2010) as the Getback Productions Crew. In 2018, Casal and Diggs released the
Collin and
Miles EPs to accompany their film
Blindspotting.
Theater Casal and Diggs co-founded the BARS workshop at the
Public Theater in New York City. The workshops serve as a platform for artists to explore and enhance their craft by merging contemporary verse with theatre.
Film and television In 2018, Casal and
Daveed Diggs released their movie,
Blindspotting. The duo wrote, produced, and starred in the film, which uses verse to tell the story of
Oakland. In 2020, the movie was adapted as a comedy-drama
series of the same name. Casal reprised his role as Miles and served as co-writer, director, executive producer, and showrunner. The series premiered at the
Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, 2021, and began streaming on
Starz on June 13, 2021. Season 2 premiered at
SXSW in March 2023 and began streaming on April 14, 2023. In September 2023, Blindspotting was cancelled. Casal has also appeared in supporting roles in
Bad Education,
The Good Lord Bird and the second revival of
Are You Afraid of the Dark? In 2023, he appeared as X-5/Brad Wolfe in the
second season of the series
Loki. ==Filmography==