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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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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.

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.

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (2023 edition)

By Marcelo Dos Santos

A new edition of the dark and biting one-man show starring Samuel Barnett at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.

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, William 'Billy' Tallon, who joined her household at the age of fifteen. Premiered in the West End with Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans.