1. Nicola Shindler was born on 8 October 1968 and is a British television producer and executive, and founder of the independent television drama production company Quay Street Productions, having founded and run Red Production Company from 1998 to 2020.
Nicola Shindler grew up in the Whitefield area of Greater Manchester.
Nicola Shindler graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Nicola Shindler first started out working as a sales manager in the sales department at Royal Court Theatre, which she chose because it was the home of new writing.
Nicola Shindler eventually started working as a script reader there but realised after a couple of years that she was more interested in the process of writing and working with writers in television versus theatre.
Nicola Shindler then got a job at the BBC as a trainee script editor.
Nicola Shindler says that it was educational and she got a reputation as a hard worker from clearing this huge backlog.
Nicola Shindler worked at Granada Television, for whom she first came to prominence as a script editor on the drama series Cracker.
Nicola Shindler then went on to work as assistant producer on the BBC's Our Friends in the North and producer on Hillsborough, a dramatised account of the 1989 football stadium disaster.
Sally Wainwright credits Nicola Shindler with bringing Last Tango in Halifax to BBC TV.
In December 2013, it was announced that Nicola Shindler had sold a majority stake Red Production Company to the French media company StudioCanal.
In 2021, Nicola Shindler launched new scripted production company Quay Street Productions.
Nicola Shindler is married to writer Matt Greenhalgh, they have two daughters and a son.