Nicolette Blount is an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, a composer, lyricist, librettist, singer, actress, speaker, producer and soon to be author. She is the first Native American recipient of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s National Musical Theatre Fellowship (2024).
She is the creator, co-writer, composer, and lyricist of Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage, a two-time O’Neill NMTC Semifinalist. The musical is inspired by her great-grandmother, a 1920s Chickasaw starlet and single mother who faced misogyny, racism, and abuse while forging her own path. Savage has earned accolades including Honorable Mention for the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award, a Playwrights Realm Native American Playwrights Lab Finalist, a Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Finalist, and First Runner-Up for Best New Musical (BroadwayWorld Boston, 2022). It was also First Runner-Up at Broadway Shark Tank, and was featured in Creative Nation’s First Storytellers Festival. Nicolette is writing a creative nonfiction book about Wanda Savage, represented by Park & Fine Literary Management.
Beyond Savage, she is collaborating on the musicals Off With Your Head, Riot Grrrl: A Punk Anti-Musical, and Bad Girls. A recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Grant (2023), her music has been featured at 54 Below, Broadway Sessions, the New York Musical Festival, Joe’s Pub, The Green Room 42, and Focus on Native Composers. A longtime Hawaii resident, she toured with the Hawaiian group Kanikapila Singers and while there released her first album, Conversations.
Through Take My Shot Productions LLC, Nicolette co-produced A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (Off-Broadway) Millennials Are Killing Musicals (Off Broadway), and In Pieces (in development). She is an associate producer on the Broadway concept album Winner (releasing soon) and an investor in the Museum of Broadway, and Distant Thunder (Off Broadway). She also founded NativeTheatreArtists.com, a platform supporting Indigenous creatives.
Her self-produced Savage EP and singles have amassed over 68,000 streams, with all profits donated to the Oklahoma Native Alliance Against Violence, supporting over 25 tribes.
As a performer, some of her favorite stage roles include Miss Hannigan (Annie), Miss Andrews (Mary Poppins), and Cinderella’s Stepmother (Into the Woods).
Nicolette is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, Society of Composers and Lyricists, Songwriters Guild of America, Beyond Music, Maestra, MUSE, RISE, and TRU.
