Chickasaw writer and composer telling the stories history tried to erase.
About
Embrace Your Passion
Chikashsha Saya! Shawi' Iksa' Saya!
I am Chickasaw. I am of the Raccoon Clan.
A citizen of the Chickasaw Nation (Raccoon Clan) originally from Southern California, Nicolette Blount is a Massachusetts-based composer-lyricist, playwright, performer, and Off-Broadway producer creating bold, Native and female-driven stories that challenge expectations and amplify underrepresented voices.
She is the first Native American National Fellow of the Dramatists Guild Foundation, was named one of the 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway by the Broadway Women's Fund, and received Honorable Mention for the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award.
Blount is the co-creator of Savage – The Unconquerable Wanda Savage, inspired by the life of her Chickasaw great-grandmother — a 1920s sharpshooter and Vaudeville performer. The musical has been a two-time semifinalist for the O'Neill National Music Theater Conference and its self-produced concept EP has been streamed more than 68,000 times. The show is currently being prepared for a professional presentation. She is also co-creator of Riot Grrrl, Off With Your Head, and Damned If She Does, all currently in development. Her work centers on powerful women, cultural identity, rebellion, and resilience, blending contemporary music styles with theatrical storytelling.
Her music has been presented in New York City at 54 Below, The Green Room 42, New York Theatre Workshop, La MaMa, Broadway Sessions, and the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Through Take My Shot Productions, Blount develops and produces new works by emerging artists. She is a co-producer on the Off-Broadway production A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet and the upcoming musicals Millennials Are Killing Musicals and Joey Contreras' In Pieces.
Blount is the founder of NativeTheatreArtists.com, a platform dedicated to increasing visibility for Indigenous and First Nations theatre artists working on and off Broadway, and has spoken at industry events, town halls, and museums — including the Harvard Club — advocating for Native representation in theatre. She is committed to raising awareness for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis and donates 100% of streaming proceeds from the Savage EP and singles to the Oklahoma Alliance Against Violence.
As a performer, her favorite roles include Miss Hannigan in Annie and Mrs. Andrews in Mary Poppins. As a singer-songwriter she has toured throughout the United States and released the album Conversations, and can be heard on several tracks from the Savage concept EP.
Blount is an early founding supporter of the Museum of Broadway and is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, the Society of Composers & Lyricists, Maestra, Muse, RISE, and the Songwriters Guild of America.
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
- Berkeley Rep Groundfloor 2026 Finalist
- Pipeline Arts Foundation 2026 Finalist
- Broadway Shark Tank First Runner Up
- 68,000+ streams on the concept EP
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