AYODELE CASEL: Storyteller
Ms. Casel, a 5-foot-1 bundle of defiant energy with the body fat of a piece of lettuce, was soon speaking in what she calls her “other language,” delivering a rousing, rapid-fire series of rat-a-tat taps with her feet that seemed to ricochet off the walls.
This “other language” put the actress, choreographer and dancer in the spotlight most recently last October, when she tapped not to music but to a recording of her own words, at a “Broadway for Hillary” fund-raiser. Michael Mayer, the stage and film director who was working with her that night, said, “Ayodele’s performance stopped the show cold.”