Nicola Shindler, 39

Director

Red Production

Biggest achievement: Setting up an award winning television production company from scratch.

Current business goal: To make more
award-winning programmes.

Nicola Shindler set up Red Production Company in January 1998 to work with writers on modern, innovative and entertaining dramas. Red first went into production in spring that year with Russell T Davies’ Queer as Folk series for Channel 4, which went on to win numerous awards. Other series the company has produced include Clocking Off by Paul Abbott and New Street Law, both for the BBC.

The company had a pre-tax profit of £354,000
on a turnover of £1.2m in 2006. It employs five full-time and two part-time staff.

After graduating from Cambridge in 1990, Shindler started her career as a script reader at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

After three years, including stints for Central Television and the BBC, she was taken on as a trainee script editor by the BBC’s Screenplay and Serials Department.
By 1994, she was assistant producer and script editor for the award winning series Our Friends in the North by Peter Flannery.

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