As a child actress for eleven years, Nicole got her start in the entertainment industry on the other side of the camera. After graduating from Yale University as a pre-med with a degree in English, she returned to California to become an apprentice staff writer on Disney’s girl-power hit, Kim Possible.
Since then, Nicole has written over two hundred produced scripts for a wide variety of formats, including musicals (penning the lyrics to five theme songs), books, comics, live-action, feature, television, and even an interactive cruise ship activity. (No, they didn’t give her free cruise tickets.) Spanning many genres, some of her credits include Hasbro’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Disney’s My Friends Tigger & Pooh, WB’s Young Justice, and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars Rebels. Nicole has story edited over a hundred episodes and developed five series to green light for television, including Transformers: Rescue Bots. She is the recipient of the WGA AWC award and is an eight-time Emmy nominee.
While continuing her work as an actress (most recently on Transformers: EarthSpark as Nova Storm and Skywarp), Nicole recently executive produced Nickelodeon’s HexVet, a series about magic-wielding veterinarians that care for fantastical creatures. In her free time, Nicole climbs mountains and trains dogs.
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