Nicola Pittam

As a British journalist, best-selling author and screenwriter, Nicola has worked in the entertainment and media industries for 35 years, starting as a reporter for Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper. After moving to Los Angeles in 1997, she covered some of the biggest stories across America, including the Columbine School shooting and 9/11.

She has interviewed every major star from Jack Nicholson and Anthony Hopkins to Christian Bale and Renee Zellweger. As well as running her own news agency, Nicola is Director of Author Services at OneMoorer Media, where she helps authors and screenwriters create their own IP. She is also the COO for indie publishing companies Dark Anthem Press and One Anthem Press. Dark Anthem publishes horror, sci-fi, thriller, dark gothic and dystopian YA while One Anthem, will focus on romance, drama, children’s books and non-fiction. Nicola is the author of 4 best selling books including the Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, Vow of Silence, and The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek, which she adapted from her own script and which hit Number 1 on Amazon’s Jewish category and won an award in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Nicola also writes TV and feature drama screenplays that feature strong female characters that have placed in contests including the Bitch List, The Grey List’s Top 40 Writers Over 40 in 2023 and 2025, Shore Scripts, Atlanta Film Festival, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Table Read My Screenplay and Austin Film Festival.

Honors & Awards

The Grey List - Official Selection- House of the Rising Sun - 2023

The Bitch List - House of the Rising Sun - 2019

Top 100 Table Read My Screenplay - House of the Rising Sun - 2023

The Grey List - Official Selection - The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek - 2025

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