Marcelo Dos Santos is an award-winning Latinx British-Brazilian-Australian writer. His play Backstairs Billy received the 2023 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. He has been a writer on attachment at the National Theatre, the Bush Theatre, HighTide Festival Theatre, as well as the Royal Court Theatre.  In 2014 he adapted the critically acclaimed best-selling Zizou Corder novel Lionboy for Complicité, which toured extensively in the UK and internationally, including to the New Victory Theater Off Broadway, where it was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. In 2022 Marcelo received a Scotsman Fringe First award for Excellence in New Writing for his monologue Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen directed by Matthew Xia, starring Tony and Olivier-nominated Samuel Barnett. Critics hailed the play as “A masterclass in comic delivery” (WhatsOnStage), “razor sharp” (Scotsman), and “Frank, funny and occasionally filthy… following in the footsteps of Fleabag” (The Independent). The production transfered to London’s Bush Theatre in November of 2023. Marcelo’s other theatre work includes Trigger Warning at Camden People’s Theatre; The End of History, a site-responsive play staged at St Giles In The Fields in Soho; Open Plan at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; Knights directed by Michael Longhurst at Tristan Bates Theatre; and New Labour directed by Richard Wilson at RADA.