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AJ Baldwin (he/they) grew up queer and trans in Texas, so that was totally chill and
probably had no significant or lasting impacts. In high school they discovered a love
for making gay short films and were awarded the Grand Jury Award for High School
Shorts at SXSW for their film FIFTEEN—thus a mission to make as much queer art as
possible was born!
They went on to earn a degree in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, which is,
of course, a real degree that they let you spend lots of money and time on, and where
his very transgender play Let There Be Light was developed as part of the college’s First
Look Reading Series. His queer web-series script Life’s Pretty Cheap was recognized as
a Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival, and he is also very-technically-kind-of-not-really
an Emmy winner if you count interning and PAing on seasons 10 and 11 of Last Week
Tonight With John Oliver.
Between writing and working as a video editor-slash-babysitter-slash-art cafe server, AJ can
currently be found producing and performing in comedy shows throughout Brooklyn.
Their improv and musical improv groups have appeared at Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s
Fun and Dumb Festival and at Brooklyn Art Haus’ Pride Comedy Festival. He lives
in Brooklyn, if that wasn't clear.
(keep Austin weird!!)
DEATH, AND - pilot, half-hour, dark comedy
Parker is broke and desperate for attention (read: an aspiring comedian). When their improv
teammate (read: sugar daddy) dies, they’re ready to give up—until they learn that the death was
faked, and they’re recruited to help with the ruse.
Search Party x the improv comedy scene.
PERFECT - pilot, half-hour, comedy
Phoebe is a lesbian engaged to a man. Danny, her younger brother, is on the brink of being cut
off from their parents for being trans. On the night of Phoebe’s engagement party, when a girl
she kissed shows up as a plus-one and their mom starts issuing Danny gender ultimatums, the
siblings must reckon with the risks of coming out of the closet—the costs of staying in—both
holding the power to make each other’s messes much, much worse.
HOLY HELL - feature, supernatural comedy
Being queer in a small-town Texas high school is hard enough for impulsive 16-year-old Charlie,
but it gets harder after a GSA trip to Austin makes her face questions about her gender identity.
That, and the discovery of a transphobic demonic cult that she has to save her town from.
A supernatural, coming-of-age comedy in the vein of Bottoms.
LET THERE BE LIGHT - one-act play, drama
When Andrew, a 21-year-old transmasculine person, finds himself in the afterlife, he wants to
stay. But God has other plans, and sends him on a retrospective journey through queer identity,
family trauma and summer camp—where Andrew discovers that he wants to stay alive.
Selected and presented as part of Sarah Lawrence College’s First Look Reading Series 2022.
LAMBS - short, dark comedy
An assistant to a wellness CEO gets sent to scout an influencer for potential collaboration and
finds herself in a cult that seems to practice human sacrifice.
