about
Becky and Baldwin makes funny/strange plays and films. Inspired by the weirdness of our lives and the world around us, we seek to create entertaining experiences that push boundaries and communicate with audiences in new and exciting ways.
Becky and Baldwin is Mara De La Rosa and Nicholas Pilapil.
founders
Mara De La Rosa is a queer writer and producer of films and live shows. She is the co-host of the podcast Dealing, one-third of the sketch team One Outta Three, and co-creator of the queer web series BAES Welcome (streaming on OutfestNow). Her short films I Don’t Love You and BASTARD premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival), and her one-minute film The Outbreak was an Audience Award Winner at Outfest FUSION. As the co-founder of Becky and Baldwin, she produces films and plays, including Other Plays and Real Love. In 2017, she co-founded Queenfest LA, an annual International Women’s Day variety show benefiting organizations supporting women throughout Los Angeles. She was a Film Independent Incubator Lab Fellow and Outfest Outset Fellow. She is currently a student and recipient of scholarships at The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade theaters.
Nicholas Pilapil is a Filipino American writer and producer. He is a winner of Concord Theatricals' Samuel French Off Off Broadway Play Festival, and his plays have been developed/performed with Artists at Play, Becky and Baldwin, Fountain Theatre, Fresh Produce’d LA, IAMA Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, Theatre Rhinoceros, The New Cosmopolitans, The Vagrancy, and Victory Gardens. In film, his shorts have screened across the country at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles Philippine International Film Festival, and Outfest FUSION. Nicholas is a producing member of Artists at Play. member of The Writers' Room at the Geffen Playhouse, and is an alum of the IAMA Theatre Under 30 Playwrights Lab, The Vagrancy Playwrights Group, Playground-LA, and artEquity.