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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.

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Lionboy

Lionboy (stage version)

By Zizou Corder Adapted by Marcelo Dos Santos

An adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.

New Labour

New Labour

By Marcelo Dos Santos

A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.

Backstairs Billy

Backstairs Billy

By Marcelo Dos Santos

An irreverent comedy about the fifty-year relationship between the Queen Mother and her most loyal, most outrageous servant. Premiered in the West End in 2023.

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

By Marcelo Dos Santos

A dark and biting one-man, a huge hit at Edinburgh in 2022 and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023, starring Samuel Barnett.