Nicolette Blount is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, a singer, actress, songwriter, writer, director, producer and a fellow for the National Dramatist Guild Foundation's Musical Theatre Fellowship. Through her LLC Take My Shot Productions, she coproduced the Off Broadway show A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet. She is a coproducer for In Pieces by Joey Contreras (in development). Through Theatre Resources Unlimited she recently produced the live broadcast reading of Rolling With the Punches by Joel S. Bailey and the short film Reprieve written by MA native, Lee Roscoe. Nicolette is an investor in the Museum of Broadway and Millennials are Killing Musicals. She started nativetheatreartists.com to help highlight Native creatives in Broadway and Off.
Nicolette is the creator, cowriter, composer and lyricist for Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage about her 1920s Chickasaw great grandma, Wanda Savage who was a starlet in Vaudeville and silent films. Savage is currently a Semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neil NMTC. The EP and singles for Savage, that she produced with Massachusetts talent, has garnered 43K streams. Nicolette donates 100%+ of the streaming income to Oklahoma Alliance Against Violence who works with 25+ tribes to help stop and prevent violence. Savage recently earned honorable mention in the American Playwriting Foundations Relentless Award. Savage had it's developmental production in 2022 at Jaduke Theater in Turners Falls, MA. Savage, was directed by Nicolette, and received 11 nominations in Broadway World's Regional Boston Awards. In the category of nonprofessional, Savage received first runner up, by a 1% loss, for Best New Musical and several other runner ups in other categories including best direction. Savage was one of the 6 shows chosen in the first Musical Shark Tank and won first runner up. As a composer, Nicolette's music has been featured at 54 Below, Women of the Wings, Laurie Beechman Theatre, New York Musical Festival (2019), and Joe's Pub at The Ring of Keys Gala.
Although classically trained, Nicolette has fronted jazz bands and rock bands. Her performance highlights have been singing at Carnegie Hall, performing in Tosca and Turandot with the Palm Springs and Riverside Civic Operas in California and singing music from Savage at Broadway Sessions. Nicolette is a member of the Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, Beyond Music, The Society of Composers and Lyricists, Songwriters Guild of America, TRU, and RISE, MUSE, and Maestra.
