Lillo Parra

Lillo Parra (born 1972 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian theatre director and comics artist.

Parra has worked as a director at the theatre collective Teatro Popular União e Olho Vivo.

In 2011, he wrote his first comic book script, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Subsequently, he published comic books based on the Shakespeare plays The Tempest and Macbeth. His graphic novel La Dansarina, with art by Jefferson Costa, was published in 2015.

He founded the publishing house Trem Fantasma together with Guido Moraes, Sérgio Barreto and Lucas Pimenta, in 2020.

Awards

In 2016, Parra won the Troféu HQ Mix, the main Brazilian comic book award, for Best Writer and Best National Special Edition (for the graphic novel La Dansarina).