Nicole Charles is a director for TV, Film and Theatre, with projects for BBC, Channel 4, ITV. She recently directed on Passenger, created by Andrew Buchan, and produced by Sister North for ITV. Passenger explores a close-knit community who are unwilling to face their fears of change, of outsiders and of the unknown.

Nicole also directed The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies, a comedy drama thriller written by Penelope and Ginny Skinner, with Sister Pictures. She was Shadow Director on drama series Save Me Too (for Sky Atlantic), and directed the award-winning documentary Hair Power: Me and My Afro for C4 series, which won both the Cannes Silver Lion Award and the Campaign Media Award for Branded Content: TV & Cinema. It was also nominated for Best Specialist Documentary at Broadcast Awards 2021. As a director/writer, she is developing a slate of projects in conversation with a number of production companies.

Nicole’s first theatre production Emilia by Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm won three Olivier Awards following a run at the Vaudeville Theatre after transferring from The Globe. Following five-star reviews, her second theatre production, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads by Roy Williams transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre to the Royal National Theatre, before cancellation due to the pandemic.

In 2020, Nicole was named amongst Edinburgh TV Festival's prestigious 'The Victor Adebodun Debut Director Award’ nominees. She is currently attached to direct her first feature film for international cinematic release in 2024.

Born and raised in south London, Nicole attended the BRIT School where she studied theatre, trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and conducted further postgraduate study at Goldsmiths University. She still lives in South London. She is raising two children. She enjoys cultivating her allotment, feeding family and friends and taking long walks when not writing, on set, or in the rehearsal room. She is drawn to stories from underrepresented perspectives and voices with universality at their centre. The work she likes to make is authored, intentional, rigorous with visual flair. Through storytelling, she is inclined toward muscular immersion of the viewer, and she employs a painterly aesthetic, tenebristic and baroque in style.