Nicole Whelan has written for some of the biggest studios in the video game industry, including Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, where she worked on the writing teams behind the best-selling action adventure series, Grand Theft Auto, and the sci-fi spy thriller, The Bureau. She studied English literature and Art History at Stanford University, and filmmaking at CalArts.

She has produced and directed several shorts, music videos and spec commercials, including an award winning short with the women of GLOW. And her own screenplays have won awards at several film festivals, including the Austin Film Festival, where she is now a script reader for the competition.