Nicolette Blount is a Chickasaw Nation tribal member, Dramatist Guild Foundation National Fellow, songwriter, librettist, singer, actress, author, and producer. She is the creator, cowriter, composer and lyricist for the O'Neill Semifinalist, Savage. Savage is a musical based on her Chickasaw grandma, Wanda Savage, who was a starlet and single mother in the 1920s that faced misogyny, racism and abuse while trying to make a name for herself. Nicolette signed with Park and Fine literary agency and is writing a narrative nonfiction about Wanda Savage. Savage received Honorable Mention for the American Playwrights Relentless Award (2022), was a Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Finalist (2024), a Playwrights Realm Native American Playwrights Lab Finalist (2024), earned 11 nominations and won several runners up in different categories in the 2022 Broadway World’s Regional Boston Awards including First Runner up for Best New Musical (non professional), received First Runner Up in Open Jar Studio’s Broadway Shark Tank (2023) and is currently in the Creative Nation's First Storytellers Festival. Nicolette is also collaborating on the musicals Red: The Queen of Hearts Story, Bad Girls of the Bible, and Riot Grrrl: A Punk Anti Musical.
Her music has been featured at 54 Below (Women of the Wings), Broadway Sessions, New York Musical Festival (2019, two concerts for Savage) and at Joe's Pub (Ring of Keys Gala). She is a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Grant (2023).
Some of Nicolette’s favorite roles to date are Ms. Hannigan in Annie, Ms. Andrews in Mary Poppins, and Cinderella’s Stepmother in Into the Woods. While living in Hawaii, Nicolette wrote and recorded her first album, Conversations and toured with the Hawaiian group Kanikapila Singers.
Through Take My Shot Productions LLC, she co-produced A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (Off-Broadway) and is co-producing In Pieces by Joey Contreras. Nicolette is an investor for the Museum of Broadway in NYC and Millennials are Killing Musicals. She self produced and released an EP and singles for Savage that has 47K streams to date. She triples 100% of the streaming profits and donates to Oklahoma Native Alliance Against Violence who works with over 25+ tribes in OK. Nicolette owns/runs Underground Demos and nativetheatreartists.com.
Nicolette is a member of the Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, Beyond Music, Society of Composers and Lyricists, Songwriters Guild of America, Maestra, Muse, Rise, and TRU.
