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Nicolette Blount performed Cat's Meow from Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage with her daughter Logan Blount at the Broadway cabaret, Mom's Night Out at The Green Room 42. Both Logan and Nicolete are members of the Chickasaw tribe.

Broadway world Announces Nicolette Blount to perform one of her songs from Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage, "Cat's Meow" at the Broadway cabaret Mom's Night out at the Green Room 42 alongside other Broadway performers including Ali Stroker.

Nicolette's show Savage was a semifinalist for the Makers Cohort IV through the Musical Theatre Factory for 2025.

Native Broadway performers Brooke Simpson (Broadway 1776, Off Broadway Blood/Love, The Voice, America's Got Talent) and Kimberly JaJuan (Broadway Ragtime, King David, Marie Christine) performed Warrior from Savage at GreenRoom 42.

Nicolette and her co-writer Lindel Hart are 2025 Semifinalists for the O'Neill New Musical Theatre Conference residency for their show Savage. Roughly the top quarter of submissions advance to the semifinal round.

 A huge honor. 

Nicolette is cowriting the book, lyrics, and writing the music for a new musical based on the Riot Grrrl movement of the 90s, the 3rd wave of feminism. 

Nicolette's musical Savage was honored to be a 2024 Finalist for The Playwrights Realms Native American Artist Lab

Nicolette's show Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage was chosen for a week long residency with Creative Nations at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO for their First Storytellers Festival to feature a public reading of Savage with a talkback after. Savage is the only musical out of all the plays featured. 

Nicolette has started to write a new show called Off With Your Head with G. Victoria Campbell. Off With Your Head is a haunting psychological musical where Wonderland becomes a distorted reflection of a mother’s mind fractured by trauma. As the Queen of Hearts spirals deeper into madness, the line between villain and victim begins to shatter.

Savage Creators Nicolette Blount and Lindel Hart were honored to be among the top 20 finalists for the 2024 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.

Cowriters Nicolette Blount and Lindel Hart were selected to be part of the Bethany Arts Multidisciplinary Residency in upstate New York 2024.

Nicolette was interviewed by Jason Ward Creative in the UK on his podcast about Native representation, Broadway, and her show Savage. 

Nicolette was featured on the Women in Theatre podcast. Amy Andrews and Hayley Goldenberg asked some great questions! 

Nicolette along with her cowriter Lindel Hart are 2024 Semifinalists for the prestigious O'Neill New Musical Theatre Conference residency for their show Savage inspired by Nicolette's Chickasaw great grandma Wanda Savage. Being selected as a semifinalist is a huge honor. This means that out of over 500 shows that applied, Savage was one of the 15-20% selected to be a semifinalist. A huge honor. 

Dramatists Guild Foundation's Inaugural National Musical Theatre Fellowship is announced on Playbill. It was also announced on Broadwayworld.com 

Nicolette Blount was named the first Native American Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellow and was one of 11 artists selected from hundreds of applicants for the program’s inaugural cohort, including five musical theatre fellows, herself included,  and six playwrights.

Savage, the musical Nicolette is working on, was chosen out of 65+ musicals to participate in the first ever Broadway Shark Tank. They performed two songs from Savage (watch here: https://www.youtube.com/c/SavageTheMusical) Savage received 2nd place and the writers got tons of great feedback from the Broadway producers.

Congratulations to everyone who won the Broadway World Boston Regional Awards. Savage the Musical placed runner up by just 1% for Best New Musical. 11 nominations resulted in 6 Runner Ups.  Thank you to all who voted. 

Nicolette was featured in Red Curtain Addict's Artist Spotlight with updates on Savage the Musical and insights on the new Broadway Museum. Check it out!

Nicolette's music as well as other new and upcoming musical theatre writers will be featured at Women of the Wings at 54 Below Sept. 30, 2022. 

Songs from Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage were commissioned for performance in “Focus on Native Composers,” presented by Celebration of Native Arts in Colorado alongside works by other Native composers. The concert featured “Warrior” and closed with “Unconquerable,” both incorporating the endangered language of Nicolette’s Chickasaw tribe.

Savage the Musical was honored to be one of 31 shows out of 500  to be given Honorable Mention in this award which means that one or more committee members (voters) said our show was their pick for the win! Nicolette is  proud of her 6 years of work with her cowriter, Lindel Hart and what they have accomplished thus far.

Savage the Musical was honored to be nominated 11 times for Broadway World's Boston Regional Awards.

In the March 2022 Issue of the Chickasaw Times for Women's History Month, Wanda Savage was featured along with Nicolette Blount and her musical Savage the Musical. 

Kari Lincks Coomans interviews Nicolette Blount at Behind the Curtain.

Eleanor and Cris interview Nicolette about Savage the Musical. You can also hear their podcast on Apple Music, iHeart Radio, and Amazon music as well as here on Spotify (see button below)