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Playwright and screenwriter
Marcelo Dos Santos is a Latinx British-Brazilian-Australian playwright and screenwriter.
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His play Backstairs Billy won him the 2023
Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, jointly with
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini.
[2]
Selected works
- 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
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"Marcelo dos Santos". Nick Hern Books.
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^ 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.
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^ Gardner, Lyn (23 September 2010).
"Review - Lovers Walk". Guardian.
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"Gemma Kerr - Cheer Up".
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^ 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.
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""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.
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"Backstairs Billy".
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^ 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.