Marcelo Dos Santos (writer)
Appearance
Marcelo Dos Santos | |
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Born | Sydney, Australia |
Alma mater | |
Years active | 2010–present |
Marcelo Dos Santos is an Australian-born 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]
Early life
[edit]Dos Santos was born in Sydney to a Brazilian father and an Australian mother. His parents divorced, and Dos Santos moved to England with his mother at the age of 10. He went on to study at the University of Bristol.[3]
Selected works
[edit]- 2010, Southwark Playhouse – Lovers Walk[4]
- 2011, Liverpool Playhouse – Cheer Up, This is Only the Beginning[5]
- 2013–2015, Bristol Old Vic, Tricycle Theatre, London and world tour – Lionboy (adaptation with Complicité of Lionboy by Zizou Corder)
- 2014, RADA – New Labour[6]
- 2022, Summerhall, Edinburgh and 2023, Bush Theatre, London – Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen[7]
- 2023, Duke of York's Theatre – Backstairs Billy[8][9]
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.
- ^ Jinman, Richard (31 October 2024). "'The next Fleabag': How Something Terrible became just the opposite". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ^ 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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- Alumni of the University of Bristol
- Australian emigrants to England
- British gay writers
- British dramatists and playwrights
- British LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights
- Living people
- 21st-century British screenwriters
- British people of Australian descent
- British people of Brazilian descent
- British dramatist and playwright stubs