Alistair Baldwin

Alistair Baldwin is a screenwriter, comedian,
director & playwright based in Naarm / Melbourne.

Credits include Erotic Stories (writer – ‘Bound’),The Weekly (writer S4, S5 & S7), Hard Quiz (writer S4 & S5), Get Krack!n (writer/actor S2), At Home Alone Together (writer/actor), Reframe (head writer/host), Live & Proud: Sydney WorldPride Opening Concert (head writer) & Thank God You’re Here (supporting cast).

In 2024, Alistair became an AACTA Award winner for his work on critically-acclaimed webseries Latecomers. In addition to story conferencing services through the show’s development, Alistair directed Episode Two during an attachment supported by SBS’ Diversity Talent Escalator initiative.

He has provided story conferencing/development services to a range of projects (including Amazon Original Deadloch & ABC/BBC co-production Return To Paradise). In 2024 Inside Film named Alistair one of Australia’s ‘Rising Talents’ in screenwriting.

His debut play Telethon Kid premiered at Malthouse Theatre in 2023.Telethon Kid was nominated for the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting and the Griffin Award, and was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for Drama.

Selected by Melbourne Theatre Company to participate in the Future Director’s Initiative, Alistair became Assistant Director on the company’s production of Pulitzer-winning play Cost Of Living – written by Martyna Majok & directed by Anthea Williams. He is Melbourne Theatre Company’s Playwriting Fellow for 2025.

Alistair is in the core ensemble for Something Good – a weekly improv show at Comedy Republic where famous faces & special guests join in on completely improvised chaos. He has also been a recurring guest for The Most Upsetting Guessing Game In The World, an endurance improv game show on Grouse House.

He also co-hosts the Love Without Limits podcast alongside comedian Madeleine Stewart. Produced by Eliza Hull for SBS Audio, the series delves into the complex intersection of disability, sexuality and intimacy.

Erotic Stories

🏆 Nominated – Best Drama

🏆 Nominated – Best Lead Actor In A Drama (Joel Lago)

🏆 Nominated – Best Supporting Actor In A Drama (Tim Draxl)

2024 AACTA Awards

🏆 Nominated – Best Miniseries

2024 Logie Awards

A thoroughly original work that pulsates with energy … Joel Lago is electric and utterly magnetic as sassy, smart and snarky CJ.

Sydney Morning Herald ★★★★

Sharply written, sensitively directed … Nobody’s pleasure is punished here, and everyone gets a happy ending.

ScreenHub ★★★★½ 

The dialogue is fresh and funny, the sex frenzied and passionate.

The Guardian

Latecomers

🏆 Winner – Best Online Drama Or Comedy

2024 AACTA Awards

🏆 Winner – Screen Diversity & Inclusion Network Award

21st Annual SPA Awards

Latecomers is an insightful, witty and superbly produced exploration of the fragility of human life and the fear of rejection that accompanies the human need for intimacy.

The Conversation

Saucy, sassy and seriously snappy dramedy … Easily the funniest, frankest Australian show of the year.

Flicks

Telethon Kid

🏆 Shortlisted – Nick Enright Prize For Playwriting

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (read judges’ comments)

🏆 Highly Commended – Prize For Drama

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Deeply dark and humorous … delights in blurring & questioning boundaries between doctor and patient, agency and abuse, medicine and marketing.

The Age ★★★★

With its intelligent insights and well crafted humour, this play warmly invites audiences to think about lived experiences and ethical matters most of us have probably barely considered before.

Limelight ★★★★

Funny precisely where it is dark and provocative.

The Guardian