Marcelo Dos Santos is a Latinx British-Brazilian-Australian playwright and screenwriter.
His play Backstairs Billy won him the 2023 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, jointly with Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini.
Selected works
- 2010, Southwark Playhouse – Lovers Walk
- 2011, Liverpool Playhouse – Cheer Up, This is Only the Beginning
- 2013–2015, Bristol Old Vic, Tricycle Theatre, London and world tour – Lionboy (adaptation with Complicité of Lionboy by Zizou Corder)
- 2014, RADA – New Labour
- 2022, Summerhall, Edinburgh and 2023, Bush Theatre, London – Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen
- 2023, Duke of York's Theatre – Backstairs Billy
References
- "Marcelo dos Santos". Nick Hern Books.
- Ramachandran, Naman (25 March 2024). "Andrew Scott, David Tennant, Sophie Okonedo Win Acting Prizes at U.K. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards". Variety. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- Gardner, Lyn (23 September 2010). "Review - Lovers Walk". Guardian.
- "Gemma Kerr - Cheer Up".
- Wilson, Richard (7 March 2019). ""Newly written works help us to understand the society we are living in": Richard Wilson on the premiere of GIG". RADA. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ""I keep coming back to sex and death – but, you know, in a fun way." Meet Marcelo Dos Santos". Bush Theatre. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- "Backstairs Billy".
- Sampson, Annabel (9 October 2023). "Tatler lifts the curtain on Backstairs Billy, the story of the Queen Mother's favourite servant, as it prepares for its West End debut". Tatler. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
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