Nicolette Blount Songwriter

Nicolette Blount, modern day renaissance woman,  is a singer, songwriter, actress, writer, vocal coach, producer, director,  artist, and designer.  She is the creator, cowriter, co-composer, co-lyricist and one of the producers for the new musical, Savage (savagethemusical.com).  Born and raised in Southern California, Nicolette has been singing since she could speak, and has been writing poetry, fiction, and music since elementary school.  She began performing professionally in fifth grade with the Southern California Girls Choir.   She sang at Carnegie Hall and performed in two operas, Tosca and Turnadot  with the Palm Springs and Riverside Civic Operas.  Nicolette has also performed on T.V. and radio.  Some of her fondest memories while living in California are singing in the trio In Christ and singing backup vocals for Chariya Bissonette. While living in Hawaii, Nicolette wrote and recorded her first album called Conversations.   She won awards in NATS competitions two years in a row and sang, danced hula, and toured Hawaiian Islands with the Kanikapila Singers.  In addition, she started a nonprofit through which she organized and produced an annual festival of local visual and performing artists.   Some of her favorite roles were in Annie (Ms. Hannigan), Mary Poppins (Ms. Andrews), Beauty and the Beast (Madame De La Grande Bouche ), Into the Woods (Cinderella's Step Mother), and Metamorphoses (Woman At The Well, Nurse Maid),  .  In addition to going to school for voice and theatre, she pursued fashion design.  She enjoys fashion illustration in her spare time, owned and designed for her own children's line, Lil Lollipops, and has been a costume designer for select musicals.  Nicolette has studied voice under Chariya Bissonette, Dr. William Chunestuary, and Marilyn Kim and studied acting under Dr. Paul Cravath.  She currently resides in Massachusetts with her family were she continues to work on cowriting the book, lyrics and songs for Savage the Musical and preforms in local theatre. Nicolette is a member of the Dramatist Guild and ASCAP.

"Although I grew up in Southern California, New England's inspiring Pioneer Valley is where I currently live and perform.   Even though I was trained classically, my heart is with jazz and pop music.   I have performed in operas, fronted a jazz band, and have been known to sing in a rock band, on occasion. I believe a good singer can sing anything....well as long as you're not screaming.   You can often find me sitting at my piano singing and songwriting.  I love collaborating with other artists.  My current collaboration is with Lindel Hart and John Waynelovich wth Savage.  It is a true story about my Great Grandma, Wanda Savage.  Growing up with the stories of Wanda always fascinated me.  Her reputation was sordid, but I always thought there was another side to her story.  I thought a musical would give her a voice."

Recent Roles

Annie

Miss Hannigan

Savage

 Maxine

Sister Act

Sister Mary Martin-of-tours

Footloose

Ethel McCormack

Seussical The Musical

Mrs. Mayor

Mary Poppins

Ms. Andrews 

Beauty and the Beast

Madame De La Grande Bouche (wardrobe)

Into the Woods

Cinderella's Step Mother

Once On This Island

(adaptation)

Mama Euralie

Christmas Carol the Musical

Scrooge's Mother

Our Town

Louella Soames

Metamorphoses

Woman by the Water, Nursemaid,  Narrator

It's A Wonderful Life

Mary Hatch