Nicola is an award-winning neurodivergent playwright from a working-class background. As a disabled writer, she is committed to exploring underrepresented voices in her writing and has successfully run engagement projects with diverse communities including Polish, neurodivergent, and deprived communities. She writes for theatre, radio and television and was part of the BBC Writers’ Access Group of BBC Writers Room for talented disabled writers expanding their writing skills for radio and television. She is an experienced dramaturg and mentor for new writers and is an Associate of the Mercury Theatre in Colchester.
She has recently been commissioned to write a new BBC Radio 4 play working with Graeae/Naked Productions in a 2 part drama adaptation of THE SECRET AGENT, a story about autism. Nicola is known for her work in regional theatre and with Graeae Theatre Company, the world-class company placing deaf and disabled actors centre stage and challenging preconceptions, and often focusing on writing for young people. In 2022 Nicky worked with Graeae as librettist for a new opera about a blind female musician at the time of Mozart called THE PARADIS FILES with music by award-winning composer Errollyn Warren and directed by Jenny Sealey, with a national tour including performances at London’s South Bank Centre and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Her 5 star sell out show SILENCE toured nationally in 2018 and her radio debut co-writing Graeae’s Christmas classic adaptation with a radical new imagining of Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit., entitled AMY DORRIT, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
Recent work includes her theatrical adaptation of THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence which (re-)opened the theatre in Perth in 2025, a commission for High Tide Theatre and her fully accessible adaptation for the deaf community, of ALICE IN WONDERLAND at Derby Playhouse in 2024. She also wrote an accessible adaptation of THE SECRET GARDEN for Bury St Edmunds as their summer show in 2023. Nicola is writing further new plays supported by the Arts Council of England.