Indigenous Artist

Nicolette Blount is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, composer, lyricist, writer, performer, and producer. She is a 2024 Dramatist Guild Foundations National Musical Theatre Fellow. Nicolette is the cowriter, composer and lyricist for the musical Savage, semifinalist for 2024 O’Neil’s NMTC, Honorable Mention for the 2022 American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award, and was a finalist for 2022 SHEarts Festival. Her music has been heard at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, and at Laurie Beechman Theatre. Through her LLC, Take My Shot Productions, she coproduced the Off Broadway show A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, is coproducing the new musical In Pieces, started nativetheatreartists.com, and is an investor for the Museum of Broadway and Millennials are Killing Musicals. The music she produced for Savage has garnered 43K streams. Nicolette is a member of Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, Songwriters Guild of America, Society of Composers and Lyricists, TRU, and Maestra.

INDIGENOUS ANCESTRY

First Nations

SELF-IDENTIFICATION

Chickasaw