about becky and baldwin
Becky and Baldwin is a production company dedicated to the creation of new plays and films. Founded in 2015 by Mara De La Rosa and Nicholas Pilapil, Becky and Baldwin aims to produce plays and films that are funny, strange and provocative. Their inaugural production was the world premiere of Real Love written and directed by Mara De La Rosa. The play had an extended sold out run at the award-winning Fountain Theatre, in Los Angeles, during the summer of 2015. Their follow up production was Other Plays, an evening of short plays by Mari Assad, Mara De La Rosa, Rosie Narasaki, and Nicholas Pilapil, in the fall of 2016, at Collective Arts Incubator.
In 2017, Becky and Baldwin released their acclaimed first film, I Don't Love You, directed by Mara De La Rosa with a screenplay by Nicholas Pilapil. The film premiered at the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and was official selections of Fil-Am Creative's Fil-Am Creations: A Filmmaker Movement and the Los Angeles Philippine International Film Festival. Continuing their foray into new media projects, Becky and Baldwin released their web series, A Day in the Life, in 2018. A faux-reality series, A Day in the Life gives a slice of life look at the lives of Becky and Baldwin—and all the hilarious, awkward and pathetic moments in it.
Becky and Baldwin launched their podcast Dealing in 2019. In this comedic health and wellness podcast, Mara De La Rosa and Nicholas Pilapil explore how people are dealing with mental and physical health issues. Together with their guests, they openly discuss personal experiences, ways to thrive, and help to breakdown the stigma of our illnesses. Season two of Dealing launched in the Spring of 2020 as part of the Accidental Information Collective.
Founder bios
Mara De La Rosa is a writer, director, and producer. She is the creator of the web series "BAES Welcome," which she also stars in and writes. Her short films include I Don’t Love You (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Fil-Am Creations: A Filmmaker Movement, Los Angeles Philippine International Film Festival) BASTARD (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival), I Like Femme Lesbians (Outfest, North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Outfest FUSION Jury Prize Honorable Mention), Bakla Ako, and Ugh, Straight Girls (Outfest FUSION).
She is also the producer of the short film Called Home (Outfest, NewFest NYC, Mardi Gras Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival). In 2017, she co-founded Queenfest LA, an annual International Women’s Day variety show benefiting organizations supporting women throughout Los Angeles. Mara was a fellow at Loyola Marymount University’s Incubator Lab at Film Independent and an OutSet fellow at Outfest. Other projects include an extended sold-out run of her play Real Love at the award-winning Fountain Theatre. maradelarosa.com
Nicholas Pilapil is a Filipino American playwright. His plays include The Bottoming Process (upcoming world premiere with IAMA Theatre Company in 2023, Victory Gardens Ignition Festival of New Plays), if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets (winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, IAMA Theatre Company's Pass the Mic Festival), and the musical comedy Before and After (winner of the Fountain Theatre's Rapid Development Series). His other plays have also been developed with Artists at Play, Becky and Baldwin, Fresh Produce’d LA, Playwrights Foundation, Theatre Rhinoceros, The New Cosmopolitans, and The Vagrancy.
In film, his short I Don't Love You was hailed by Philippine News as "the laugh-out-loud funny film of the evening" at the Philippine International Film Festival and called "Hilarious...laughs from beginning to end" by That's My Entertainment at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. 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. nicholaspilapil.com