Clayton Nascimento
Actor, playwright, director, and casting director
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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 also won the APTR Theater award for Best Actor.
On television and streaming, Clayton Nascimento appeared in the soap opera “Fuzuê” (2023, Globo) and in the series “As Five” (2023, Globo), “Dois Tempos” (2023, Disney+), “A Caverna de Petra” (2023, Globoplay), and “Carcereiros” (2017, Globoplay).
He worked as a Casting Coach on the series “Histórias Impossíveis” (2023, Globo), “Rota 66” (2022, Globoplay), and on the film “Erva de Gato” (to be released, Dir. Adalberto Kemeny and Rodolfo Lustig). His debut as a writer and director at Rede Globo was with the episode “Falas Negras”, part of the same project, “FALAS”.
In cinema, Clayton was part of the cast of the film “Selvagem” (2021, Dir. Diego da Costa), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Oscars.
He performed in the play “BURAQUINHOS”, which won the 2019 APCA Award for Best Direction, the Aplauso Brasil Award for Best Direction, and was also nominated for Best Ensemble in 2019 by the same award. He directed the play “O crime da Cabra”, a popular comedy about injustice 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 girls from underserved communities who dream of playing soccer. The play won the 2019 Coca-Cola Award/São Paulo Children’s and Youth Theater Award, where he was recognized as Breakthrough Artist