Nicole Mairose Dizon is a Filipina-American (Kapampangan) writer, director, producer, and third space curator. Growing up around mines in Baldwin Park, CA, she explores the lives of strivers, the working class and the overlooked in her work.

At the University of California, Irvine, she was 1 of 34 seniors selected for the Chancellor’s Award of Distinction out of 8,000 graduates for her leadership in key involvements and service to the university. After she graduated Cum Laude with a Film & Media Studies B.A., she worked for ICM, Scott Free and various shows. In 2022, she was featured in Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Crew for Filipino American History Month for her work as a Writers’ Production Assistant and Showrunner’s Assistant on Amazon's Blade Runner 2099.

She is an Individual Artist Fellow for the inaugural California Arts Council Fellowship, and a member of GRAMMY U (the Recording Academy’s community of emerging music creatives and professionals). She wrote and directed Morena, a magical realism short about the terrifying side effects of supernatural skin whitening cream. It opened Gold House and UTA’s Filipino/x American History Month Independent Filmmakers Showcase in October 2023 and premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2022. As a Producer for Film Independent’s 2021 Project Involve Cohort, she produced the award-winning shorts: Dear Mama... and The Mason Ring. Dear Mama… is currently available on The New Yorker and Short of the Week.

She completed the 2025 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Fellowship with Fifth Season and Ghetto Film School. Her short Ruya (a short about an insomniac T’boli dreamweaver) won Best Narrative Experimental Film at Urbanworld Film Festival 2025 and Best Cinematography / Panavision Grant Award at Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival 2025. Last year, she wrapped as a Script Coordinator on the upcoming one-hour Netflix thriller, TRINITY. She has completed mentorships in Well Dunn Foundation and Turn Up Her Mic in live music and the inaugural Level Ground Filmmaker Fellowship. She’s training in the 2026 Future Festival and Major Events (FAME) Leader Training Program with Coalition of Festivals and Major Events (COFAME) in partnership with The FAM, Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity, BRIC Foundation, South Bay Workforce Investment Board, Goldenvoice, AEG Presents, AEG Worldwide, and more. She’s working in live events on the harm reduction/guest experience team for Insomniac and guest services for Goldenvoice. When Dizon’s not working, she loves hiking, music production, baseball (Go Dodgers!), F1 and Duolingo (not sponsored…yet).