Nicole Schiro

I grew up under the shelter of the Pineywoods of East Texas. My passion for storytelling began with a seventh-grade English assignment, for which I wrote and performed a monologue about a terminally ill woman who was seeking assisted suicide. The assignment taught me how performance can spark meaningful dialogue about challenging topics, and I never looked back.

As a sophomore in high school, I was accepted into the University of Texas Summer Theatre Workshop. I was awed by the teachers, facilities, and shared love of the arts I experienced while at the Workshop and decided to return to The University of Texas to earn my BFA in Acting. While there, I performed in mainstage productions including The Enchanted, Medea, West Side Story, The Comedy of Errors, and Robert Wilson’s workshop of Gertrude Stein’s opera Four Saints in Three Acts.

After college, I moved to New York, where I worked in theatre and film. My stage credits include leading roles in Antigone at the Queens Theatre and Andromache at the Tobacco Warehouse, as well as portraying Mary Todd Lincoln on a regional tour produced by the Fulton Opera House. I also worked at the historic La MaMa E.T.C. In 2000, I appeared in the Warner Bros. film The Replacements and subsequently joined SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity Association.

I met my husband, Ted Magee, in 2007 when he cast me in The Ranch, a short film he made while finishing his MFA in Directing at Columbia University. Before our daughter was born, we returned to Austin, where I continued acting in commercials and film, and notably portrayed Lady Bird Johnson in Zach Theatre’s production of Robert Schenkkan's Tony Award-winnning All The Way.

I recently returned to acting after taking a ten-year break to focus on family and earning my Master's degree in College Student Development and my Ed.D. in Leadership and Higher Education. In December 2025, my husband and I co-founded Door 98, a production company with the mission to "tell women's stories through the art of narrative film." In June 2026, we will shoot a short film in which I will play a middle-aged professor who has left her career to care for her declining mother.