Smile

What makes Nicole Amsler smile? “Anybody walking through my front door,” said the 50-year-old Noblesville resident. She works remotely as a marketing manager for K2Share, a technology education platform for young adults. She’s a mother to three Noblesville graduates. Her two daughters, Delaney and Krista, will graduate this spring from IU Bloomington and Indiana Wesleyan, respectively, and her son, Spencer, will attend Mid-America College of Funeral Services. She loved having “theater kids” visit when her kids were in high school. Now, she spends all her free time doing community theater. In November, she won the Encore Association’s award for Best Stage Manager of a Play for “Rumors” at Basile Westfield Playhouse. She is a playwright of a one-act play, Holiday Cards,” which she directed in December at Westfield Playhouse. She produced the recent “Around the World in 80 Days” for The Belfry Theatre and is currently directing Hyperion Players’ “God of Carnage,” a play on stage Friday through Sunday at The Ivy Tech Auditorium in Noblesville. She runs the marketing team for Epilogue Players. This year, she returned from a 27-year hiatus, returning to acting, taking on the role of Annie in “The Calendar Girls” at Epilogue. She was born in Michigan, left 30 years ago and has lived 13 places. Nicole has “Carpe Diem” tattooed on her ankle, and her next tattoo will be “Die Interesting.” She said, “That’s my goal: a big, juicy, creative, wild life.”