Adesola Osakalumi aka Adesola

Adesola Osakalumi (ah-day-SHOW-la O-sa-ka-LU-mee) is an award-winning actor, choreographer, singer, and dancer whose talents have garnered him successes in film, television, and on Broadway. He is perhaps best recognized as a lead in the National Tour of the Broadway hit musical FELA!, which won three Tony Awards in 2010. To rave reviews, Adesola was the lead during the musical’s first national tour as well as when it returned to Broadway the following summer.
In 2016, Adesola was cast as Trenton in Ice on Audience Network/DirectTV, executive produced and directed by Academy Award-winning director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day); and in the highly-acclaimed OBIE Award-winning play Skeleton Crew, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson at the Atlantic Theater Company. Prior, Adesola was cast in the Broadway revival of Equus with Daniel Radcliffe.
In film, Adesola can be seen in Sex and the City 2; The Accidental Husband (with Uma Thurman); Crazy Beats Strong, an award-winning short film featured at The Sundance Film Festival; and in Ngwino Ubeho at The Sundance Theater Lab.
He has been favorably reviewed and profiled in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, VIBE.com, BlackActors.net, ESSENCE.com, Jamaica Observer, The Crisis Magazine, and many other outlets.
It was through dance that Ade (as he is affectionately called) made his first mark on the stage and has come to be regarded among his peers as a leader in the world of hip hop dance. He has the distinction of having
co-created and co-directed the Off-Broadway hit Jam on the Groove, the
first ever hip hop theater production. It received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Choreography. Ade is also co-founder of the legendary GhettOriginal Productions Dance Company. His work has earned him a Bessie Award, a Drama Desk Award nomination, and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. As a dancer, his appearances include Across the Universe, Enchanted, Idlewild, ABC Television’s Double Platinum (with Brandy and Diana Ross), Louis/The Great Observer, MTV Music Video
Awards, The TODAY Show, American Music Awards, and others.
Choreographic credits include the films School of Rock and Marci X; for the stage, Centrifugal Force at Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors (where he served as artistic director/co-choreographer); Eyewitness Blues for New York Theatre Workshop; Mister at the NY Fringe Festival and New York Theatre Workshop; and Hip Hop Wonderland