Marcelo Dos Santos

Marcelo Dos Santos

Marcelo Dos Santos is an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter.

His plays include: Backstairs Billy (West End, 2023); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2022 and Bush Theatre, London, 2023); New Labour (RADA, 2014, directed by Richard Wilson); Lionboy adapted from the novels by Zizou Corder (Complicite, 2013 and 2014); Lovers Walk (Southwark Playhouse); and Cheer Up, This is Only the Beginning (Liverpool Playhouse).

He was named Most Promising Playwright at the 2024 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Backstairs Billy.

An adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.
A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to c...
An irreverent comedy about the fifty-year relationship between the Queen Mother and her most loyal, most outrageous s...
A new edition of the dark and biting one-man show starring Samuel Barnett at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.