Alistair Baldwin

Alistair Baldwin is a writer, director & comedian for stage & screen.

His credits include Miss Sultanah (co-creator, writer & director), Erotic Stories (writer – ‘Bound’), Latecomers (director – ‘For Research’), Get Krack!n (writer & actor S2), The Weekly (writer S4, S5 & S7), Hard Quiz (writer S4 & S5), 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).

Alistair is an AACTA Award winner for his work on SBS Digital Original Latecomers and been named one of Inside Film‘s Rising Talents in Screenwriting. He has provided story conferencing & development services to a range of projects (including Amazon Original Deadloch & ABC/BBC co-production Return To Paradise).

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 was Melbourne Theatre Company’s Playwriting Fellow for 2025.

He co-hosted the SBS Audio series Love Without Limits, which was nominated for Reporting on Disability at the 31st Quill Awards.

Miss Sultanah

We are so pleased to add Miss Sultanah to the beloved canon of audacious, irreverent Australian comedies. Whether you see yourself in Grace, Nikki, or one of the four other inimitable contestants gunning for the crown, the desire to be seen and celebrated on your own terms is universally resonant.

Zaina Ahmed, SBS Commissioning Editor, Digital Originals

From the outset, Artemis Muñoz, Rhian Wilson Ruge and Alistair Baldwin set out to tell a gutsy story full of heart, humour and sequins. Through Digital Originals, it has been a joy to see the team behind Miss Sultanah realise their creative ambition into a vibrant series inspired by the creators’ lived experiences.

Sincere, funny and deeply human, this bold and layered story, nurtured to life by directors Alistair Baldwin and Hannah Ngo, is one that audiences in Australia and around the world will connect with.

Louise Gough, Screen Australia Director of Narrative Content

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