Marcelo Dos Santos is a Latinx British-Brazilian-Australian playwright and screenwriter.[1]
His play Backstairs Billy won him the 2023 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, jointly with Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini.[2]
Selected works
edit- 2010, Southwark Playhouse – Lovers Walk[3]
- 2011, Liverpool Playhouse – Cheer Up, This is Only the Beginning[4]
- 2013–2015, Bristol Old Vic, Tricycle Theatre, London and world tour – Lionboy (adaptation with Complicité of Lionboy by Zizou Corder)
- 2014, RADA – New Labour[5]
- 2022, Summerhall, Edinburgh and 2023, Bush Theatre, London – Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen[6]
- 2023, Duke of York's Theatre – Backstairs Billy[7][8]
References
edit- ^ "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.