Clayton Nascimento
Actor, playwright, director, and casting director
Clayton Nascimento is an actor, playwright, director, and casting director. He graduated from Célia Helena, Casa do Teatro, SP Escola de Teatro, and studied at the Escola de Arte Dramática. He currently teaches undergraduate courses at Célia Helena and SP Escola de Teatro and will become a Master at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo with research focused on dramaturgy and black corporeality.
He is currently the youngest Brazilian black actor to win the Shell Theater Award for Best Actor - awarded in 2023 for his performance in "MACACOS". For the same play, Clayton received the APCA Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the same award for his playwriting. He also received the Atheist God Theater Award for his performance and was nominated for Best Playwriting, Show, and Direction. "MACACOS" was considered a historiographical and dramatic document by the newspaper "O Globo" in May 2023. He is currently nominated for Best Actor at the APTR Theater award in Rio de Janeiro.
He performed in the play "BURAQUINHOS", winner of the 2019 APCA Award for Best Direction, the Aplauso Brasil Award for Best Direction, and nominated for Best Cast in 2019 by the same award. He directed the play "O crime da Cabra", a popular comedy about injustices and abuses of power in Brazil, written by Renata Pallottini.
He directed the youth play "Vocês vão ter que me engolir" by Cia Mar de Teatro, about peripheral girls who desire to play soccer. The play won the Coca Cola Award/São Paulo Youth Theater Award in 2019 as a Revelation Artist.
On television and streaming, Clayton Nascimento acted in the series "Carcereiros" (2017, Globoplay), "Dois Tempos" (2023, Disney+), "A Caverna de Petra" (2023, Globoplay), "As Five" (2023, Rede Globo), and the soap opera Fuzuê (2023, Rede Globo).
The artist also works as a Casting Director on the series "Rota 66" (2022, Globoplay), the film "Erva de Gato" (To be released, Dir. Adalberto Kemeny and Rodolfo Lustig), and the series "Histórias Impossíveis" (2023, Rede Globo). His debut as a screenwriter and director on Rede Globo will be in the episode "Falas Negras", from the same project, FALAS.
In cinema, Clayton was part of the cast of the film "Selvagem" (2021, Dir. Diego da Costa), a film pre-nominated for the 2022 Oscar.