Chickasaw composer and playwright telling the stories history tried to erase.
About
Embrace Your Passion
Southern California native and Chickasaw Nation citizen Nicolette Blount is a Massachusetts-based composer, lyricist, playwright, and producer whose work often centers overlooked histories and voices. She is the first Native American National Fellow of the Dramatists Guild Foundation and was named one of the 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway by the Broadway Women’s Fund. Blount is the co-creator of Savage – The Unconquerable Wanda Savage, a musical inspired by the life of her great-grandmother, a Chickasaw Vaudeville performer and silent film sharpshooter in the 1920s. The musical has been a two-time semifinalist for the prestigious O’Neill National Musical Theatre Conference and received Honorable Mention for the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award. Her work has been featured at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, The Green Room 42, Broadway Sessions, the New York Musical Festival, and Creative Nations’ First Storytellers Festival.
Musicals
FEATURED:
Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage
She had 5 husbands, but she only shot two of them.
A musical inspired by the true story of a 1920s Chickasaw performer and mother whose son is torn from her and put in an Indian boarding school, as she fights to survive exploitation on the Vaudeville stage and a Hollywood system determined to erase her identity.
• 2× O’Neill National Musical Theatre Conference Semifinalist
• Honorable Mention – Relentless Award (American Playwriting Foundation)
OTHER MUSICALS:
Riot Grrrl: The Anti Musical
A punk-fueled musical set in the 1990s Riot Grrrl movement where three teenage girls confront sexism, racism, identity, and sexual violence while discovering their voices through music, writing, and rebellion.
Girls to the front!
Off With Your Head
A psychological musical where Wonderland emerges as the fractured inner world of a mother in a psychiatric ward, as surreal characters and memories collide in the haunting origin story of the Queen of Hearts.
Damned if She Does...
A musical reexamining the women in history and scripture labeled “dangerous,” “temptresses,” or “fallen,” revealing the double standards placed on women throughout history.
Be Inspired By Everything
“Storytelling has always been good medicine. Musical theatre helps us feel again."
— Nicolette Blount