Nicola’s life has been a juxtaposition of the local and the international. Raised in a small town in Upstate New York, she and her family spent half of her fourth-grade year instead in a small town in southern Lincolnshire, where her father had grown up. Later, she spent every summer of her teenage years singing music from around the world (from South Africa to the republic of Georgia, Appalachia to Corsica) in village churches around New England. After college, she was thrilled to have the opportunity to travel across Europe for three months with the same organization, and see Corsica, Berlin, and the Alps for herself.

Apart from those three months of travel, Nicola spent two years after college working at an international public health organization, where she particularly enjoyed communicating with field offices around the world, and she is pleased to be once again working at a company with a broad international membership.

She moved to Virginia to pursue graduate studies in Shakespeare and Performance, relocating to the DC area after achieving her MFA. Outside of work, she volunteers at a local cat shelter, sings in a choir, and periodically appears in a variety of theatrical productions.