Nicola is an experienced and much-commissioned playwright and television writer who won the 1993 George Devine Award with her first play, Confetti.
She has subsequently had main-stage productions at the Manchester Royal Exchange and at the Crucible in Sheffield. She has written for Where the Heart Is and her radio series Have your Cake was broadcast on Radio 4 to a warm popular and critical reception.
From September 2012 Nicola will be a Royal Literary Fellow at Greenwich University