Nicola Shindler (born 8 October 1968) is a British television producer and executive, and founder of the independent television drama production company Red Production Company. She has won eleven BAFTA TV Awards.
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Early life and education
Shindler was born in Rochdale, England, the daughter of school teacher Gaye Shindler (née Kenton) and solicitor Geoffrey Shindler. She grew up in the Whitefield area of Greater Manchester.
Shindler attended Bury Grammar School from 1979 to 1987. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, reading history at the University of Cambridge.
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Career
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. She eventually started working as a script reader there but realized after a couple of years that she was more interested in the process of writing and working with writers in television versus theater.
Shindler then got a job at the BBC as a trainee script editor. Part of the responsibilities of that job in the early days was reading scripts that had been accumulating in the basement of the BBC for over 10 years. Shindler says that it was educational and she got a reputation as a hard worker from clearing this huge backlog.
Shindler worked at Granada Television, for whom she first came to prominence as a script editor on the drama series Cracker (1993). She then went on to work as assistant producer on the BBC's Our Friends in the North (1996) and producer on Hillsborough, a dramatised account of the 1989 football stadium disaster. All three starred actor Christopher Eccleston, who subsequently featured in several dramas for Shindler's Red Production Company.
In 1998, Shindler formed Red Production Company - named after the nickname of Shindler's favourite football team, Manchester United - in Manchester. Its first project, with Shindler producing, was writer Russell T Davies' gay drama serial Queer as Folk. Queer as Folk gave Red a reputation as producers of noteworthy drama, and they followed this up with subsequent series for Channel 4 such as Love in the 21st Century (1999) and Queer as Folk 2 (2000).
Red has since produced dramas for BBC One, BBC Two, and ITV including Clocking Off (2000-03), Flesh and Blood (2002), Bob and Rose (2001) and The Second Coming (2003).
In addition to the ITV series, Scott and Bailey, Shindler produced the award-winning Happy Valley, which is set in the Calder Valley and environs and stars Sarah Lancashire.
Sally Wainwright credits Shindler with bringing Last Tango In Halifax to BBC TV.
Other productions produced by Shindler at Red are 2016's The Five and 2017's Trust Me.
In December 2013, it was announced that Shindler had sold a majority stake Red Production Company to the French media company StudioCanal.
In 2016, Shindler went into business with author Harlan Coben (The Five) to form the U.S.-based production company, Final Twist Productions. Shindler is Co-CEO with Coben. StudioCanal will provide distribution services.
Personal life
Shindler lives and works in Manchester, England. Shindler is married to writer Matt Greenhalgh, with whom she has two daughters and a son.
Honors
- 2003: The Guardian - Media top 100
- 2009: Manchester Metropolitan University, Honorary Doctorate of Arts
- 2013: BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour - Power List 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom
- 2015: The Hollywood Reporter - 25 Most Powerful Women in Global TV
- 2016: Peabody Award for Happy Valley
- 2017: Women in Film and Television International - Women in Film and Television Award
Awards
- 1997: BAFTA TV Award, Best Single Drama for Hillsborough - with Katy Jones, Charles McDougall, Jimmy McGovern
- 1997: Munich Film Festival, VFF TV Movie Award, Best International Television Production for Hillsborough
- 2001: BAFTA TV Award, Best Drama Series for Clocking Off - with Ann Harrison-Baxter, Paul Abbott
- 2002: BAFTA TV Award, Best Drama Serial for Bob & Rose (nomination) - with Ann Harrison-Baxter, Russell T. Davies
- 2002: BAFTA TV Award, Best Drama Series for Clocking Off (nomination) - with Juliet Charlesworth, Paul Abbott
- 2003: BAFTA TV Award, Best Drama Series for Clocking Off (nomination) - with Paul Abbott, Juliet Charlesworth
- 2005: Royal Television Society, RTS Television Award, Best Drama Serial for Conviction (nomination) - with Marc Munden, Bill Gallagher, Ann Harrison-Baxter, David Richards
- 2008: BAFTA TV Award, Best Single Drama for The Mark of Cain - with Tony Marchant, Lynn Horsford, Marc Munden
- 2008: Broadcasting Press Guild Award, Best Single Drama for The Mark of Cain (nomination) - with Tony Marchant, Marc Munden, Lynn Horsford
- 2008: Monte-Carlo TV Festival, Golden Nymph for Best Television Film for The Mark of Cain - with Marc Munden, Lynn Horsford, Tony Marchant
- 2010: BAFTA TV Award, Best Drama Serial for Unforgiven (nomination) - with Sally Wainwright, Karen Lewis, David Evans
- 2013: BAFTA TV Award, Best Mini-Series for Last Tango in Halifax - with Sally Wainwright, Euros Lyn, Karen Lewis
- 2015: BAFTA TV Award, Best Mini-Series for Prey (nomination) - with Nick Murphy, Tom Sherry, Chris Lunt
- 2017: BAFTA TV Award, Best Drama Series for Happy Valley - with Sally Wainwright. Juliet Charlesworth, Neasa Hardiman
- 2017: BAFTA Television Craft Award, Best Drama Series for Happy Valley (nomination) - with Sally Wainwright, Juliet Charlesworth, Neasa Hardiman
- 2017: Banff Rockie Award, Best Mini-Series for Happy Valley (nomination) - with Sally Wainwright, Neasa Hardiman, Juliet Charlesworth
- 2017: Royal Television Society, RTS Television Award, Best Single Drama for The Mark of Cain (nominated) - with Marc Munden, Lynn Horsford, Tony Marchant
Filmography
References
External links
- Red Production Company
- Nicola Shindler on Twitter
- Nicola Shindler on IMDb
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