[1] Her sisters are Marjorie Nichol, a radio producer and journalist, most recently the executive producer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Sunday Edition", and Sarah Milroy, a critic and writer on the visual arts, now the Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Nichol wrote the book and lyrics (music by Tom Bellman) for the Canadian musical "The Sparrow Songs: A Country Song String," which was featured at The Summerworks Festival in August 2011, ran at Hugh's Room in Toronto and the Festival of Ideas and Creation at Canadian Stage in 2012.
She has received a Canadian Juno award, for her original, multi platinum recording of Beethoven Lives Upstairs, a Canal + award for The Home For Blind Women, has been a Governor General's Award finalist for her children's book Dippers and won the Mr. Christie Prize for Biscuits in The Cupboard, a book of verse.
She was nominated for a Juno Award as well for producing and directing the children's play series "A Story For A Child."
She received an Emmy nomination for her Sesame Street special "Basil Hears a Noise."