Nicole Jost (she/her) is a queer playwright and educator. She is a co-founder of Queer Cat Productions, a Bay Area queer theater company that creates consent-forward, accessible, immersive theater and experiences that leave audiences more connected. With Queer Cat Productions, Nicole is co-writer of four interactive plays. Those include THE GAY DIVORCE PLAY, which was produced in 2019 at Potrero Stage in San Francisco. As a solo playwright, Nicole's first play THE TERROR FANTASTIC was produced by 20% Theatre Company Twin Cities in Minneapolis. Her play SUCIA was awarded the Honorable Mention for the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award, and produced by San Francisco State University, University of Central Missouri, and read at South Dakota State University and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Other full length plays have been read at San Francisco Playhouse, Z Space, and The Custom Made Theatre Company. Nicole’s short plays have been presented by Best of PlayGround, B8 Theatre Company, Gadfly Theatre Productions, Rorschach Theatre, and the San Francisco Olympians Festival. Nicole is also a two-time winner of the James Milton Highsmith Playwriting Award for queer theater. As an educator, Nicole has spent more than thirteen years teaching young people ages eight to eighteen to write plays of their own. She is the founder of Write for the Stage, a digital platform bringing creative writing classes to kids wherever they are. Nicole holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She lives in they Bay Area with her wife and eighteen year old cat.