Nicole Whelan is a writer and filmmaker who works across games, film, and art. She has written for some of the biggest studios in the video game industry, including Rockstar Games and 2K, where she was staffed on the writing teams behind the best-selling action-adventure series Grand Theft Auto and the sci-fi spy thriller The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.

Her screenwriting has earned awards at numerous festivals, including the Austin Film Festival, where she now serves as a script reader. She also works as a script consultant and has workshopped material with creatives from shows including Good Trouble and GLOW.

Beyond her work in film and games, Ms. Whelan played in Fur Cups For Teeth, an art-rock grrrl band based in Brooklyn that released one of the Village Voice Pazz & Jop top albums of the year, and works as a creative producer for Nonstop studio in Los Angeles, helping produce large-scale public art installations, including one for Banksy’s Dismaland. Her own sculptures have been featured in Art in America and Sculpture Key West. As a longtime member of art collectives in New York and Los Angeles, she brings that collaborative energy into her current work, producing and directing shorts, music videos, and developing new screenplays and spec projects.

Ms. Whelan studied English Literature and Art History at Stanford University and later Filmmaking at CalArts. She lives in Los Angeles.