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Nicolette was chosen for a week long residency with Creative Nations in Boulder, CO for their First Storytellers Festival to feature a reading of her musical Savage with a talkback after. Savage is the only musical out of all the plays featured.
Featured in Celebration of Native Arts Concert
Featured in Celebration of Native Arts Concert
Nicolette was honored to have some of her music from Savage featured at “Focus on Native Composers” with Celebration of Native Arts in Colorado along with other Native composers. They performed Warrior and ended the concert with Unconquerable. Boh songs featured some of her Chickasaw tribe's endangered language.
Interview with Women and Theatre
Featured in Celebration of Native Arts Concert
Nicolette was featured on the Women in Theatre podcast. Amy Andrews and Hayley Goldenberg asked some great questions!
Interview with Jason Ward
Interview with Jason Ward
Nicolette was interviewed by Jason Ward Creative in the UK on his podcast about Native representation, Broadway, and her show Savage.
O'Neill Semi Finalist
Interview with Jason Ward
Nicolette along with her cowriter Lindel Hart are 2024 Semifinalists for the prestigous O'Neill New Musical Theatre Conference residency for their show Savage inspired by Nicolette's Chickasaw great grandma Wanda Savage . . Being a semifinalist is a huge honor. This means that out of over 500 shows who applied, Savage was one of the 15-20% selected to be a semifinalist. A huge honor.
Playbill Announces Nicolete Blount and 10 others as DGF Fellows
Dramatist Guild Foundations Inagural National Musical Theatre Fellowship is announced on Playbill. It was also announced on Broadwayworld.com https://www.broadwayworld.com/industry/article/Dramatists-Guild-Foundation-Announces-National-Fellows-Class-20240130
Click the button below to read the Playbill article.
Broadwayworld.com announces Dramatist Guild Foundation's National Musical Theatre Fellows Announced
Nicolette was chosen to be one of 5 musical theatre writers (and 6 playwrights) and is the first Native American chosen in the Nation to take part in this National fellowship. The Fellowship program started in 2000, but 2024 is the first year to go National. She joins other prior fellows such as Pasek and Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, Greatest
Nicolette was chosen to be one of 5 musical theatre writers (and 6 playwrights) and is the first Native American chosen in the Nation to take part in this National fellowship. The Fellowship program started in 2000, but 2024 is the first year to go National. She joins other prior fellows such as Pasek and Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, Greatest Showman, La La Land), Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen, In Transit) Michael R. Jackson (Pulitzer Prize Winner, A Strange Loop) and more.
Nicolette Cowrites a Song for the Ring of Keys Gala Benefit
Nicolette cowrote a song with Nico Juber in response to Alan Menken's Santa Fe from Newsies. With that inspiration they cowrote Palm Springs for the event and it was perfromed by Darius-Anthony Robinson and Garnet Williams. Also featured at the event was Auli'i (Moana, Mean Girls) and Taylor Iman Jones (Head Over Heels, Six) Directed by M
Nicolette cowrote a song with Nico Juber in response to Alan Menken's Santa Fe from Newsies. With that inspiration they cowrote Palm Springs for the event and it was perfromed by Darius-Anthony Robinson and Garnet Williams. Also featured at the event was Auli'i (Moana, Mean Girls) and Taylor Iman Jones (Head Over Heels, Six) Directed by Mack Brown (I Can Get it For You Wholesale) and Music Directed by Julianne B. Merrill (My Son's A Queer, A Strange Loop).
Savage at Broadway Shark Tank
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.
Broadway World Awards
Congratulations to everyone who won the Broadway World Boston Regional Awards. Savage the Musical lost by 1% for Best New Musical. 11 nominations resulted in 6 Runner Ups. Thank you to all who voted.
Red Curtain's Addict's Artist Spotlight
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!
Women of the Wings at 54 Below
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.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Relentless Award
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.
11 Broadway World Boston Nominations
Savage the Musical was honored to be nominated 11 times for Broadway World's Boston Regional Awards.
Featured in Chickasaw Times
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.
Interviewed for Behind the Curtain by Red Curtain Addict
Kari Lincks Coomans interviews Nicolette Blount at Behind the Curtain.
Interviewed on Breaking the Curtain
Eleanor and Cris interview Nicolette about Savage the Musical.
Feature in Native Max's Entertainment Issue
Nicolette and her musical Savage the Musical was honored to be featured in a beautiful two page article in Native Max Magazine July/2021 in their Entertainment Issue.
"Warrior" featured on New Alliance Radio Hour
"Warrior" the song Nicolette Co-composed, wrote the lyrics for and sang on was featured on New Alliance Radio Hour which is heard on 6 different stations across Massachusetts and Connecticut.
"Barrier Breaker" Article in Daily Hampshire Gazette
"Barrier Breaker" Article in Daily Hampshire Gazette
Nicolette was interviewed for the Daily Hampshire Gazette and they did a full two page article on her Great Grandma Wanda Savage and her show Savage the Musical.
SAVAGE THE MUSICAL Releases Much Anticipated EP - Article on Broadwayworld.com
Savage the Musical, which Nicolette cowrote, co-composed, and wrote the lyrics for, released a 7 song EP on June 28, 2021. The short album is streaming on all music platforms (iTunes, Spotify, etc..). Broadwayworld.com wrote a great article about the album with some insight into each song as it takes place in the show.
Recent interview with Nicolette Blount on Resilience Radio
Jennifer Robin AKA Miss Jiff interviewed Nicolette for Resilience Radio, a Native American Program, on KVMR in CA. They talked about the real life protagonist in Savage the Musical, Nicolette's Great Grandma Wanda Savage's life, Chickasaw history, Native American issues, and women's rights, as these are all issues Savage the Musical deal
Jennifer Robin AKA Miss Jiff interviewed Nicolette for Resilience Radio, a Native American Program, on KVMR in CA. They talked about the real life protagonist in Savage the Musical, Nicolette's Great Grandma Wanda Savage's life, Chickasaw history, Native American issues, and women's rights, as these are all issues Savage the Musical deals with. To hear the interview click the button below, page down to Resilience Radio June 3 the interview starts approx. at 1:00.
Interview with the Stage Door Show
Recent interview with Nicolette Blount on Musicals with Impact
Recent interview with Nicolette Blount on Musicals with Impact
Nicolette and her cowriter Lindel Hart had a great time being interviewed by Dave Hondel at the Stage Door Show. Listen to it on I Heart Radio and all other podcast streaming sites or watch it below on their Youtube channel.
Recent interview with Nicolette Blount on Musicals with Impact
Recent interview with Nicolette Blount on Musicals with Impact
Recent interview with Nicolette Blount on Musicals with Impact
Nicolette was interviewed by Spencer Williams on the Podcast Musicals with Impact about Savage the Musical. You can hear it everywhere podcasts are streamed.
Theater Makers Spotlight
Recent interview with Nicolette Blount on Musicals with Impact
Theater Makers Spotlight
Nicolette was interviewed for Ken Davenport's Theater Makers Spotlight
Interview with Northern Roots about the affects of the Pandemic
Interview with Nicolette Blount and Director Rachel Klein about Savage the Musical DC Metro Arts
Interview with Northern Roots about the affects of the Pandemic
Nicolette was interviewed by the Canadian blog, Northern Roots about her show Savage the Musical and the affect of COVID on their first production.
Award for "Wanda Savage"
Interview with Nicolette Blount and Director Rachel Klein about Savage the Musical DC Metro Arts
Interview with Northern Roots about the affects of the Pandemic
Composer/Lyricists Nicolete Blount and John Waynelovich received the 2019 Song of The Year Award from the Tony Award Winning Producer, Ken Davenport. "Pronys" are given to outstanding achievement in several catagories each year in Ken's Producer's Perspective. Congratulations to Nicolette and John for this big achievement! You can hear Wanda Savage on all streaming platforms.
Interview with Nicolette Blount and Director Rachel Klein about Savage the Musical DC Metro Arts
Interview with Nicolette Blount and Director Rachel Klein about Savage the Musical DC Metro Arts
Interview with Nicolette Blount and Director Rachel Klein about Savage the Musical DC Metro Arts
Nicolette was honored to be interviewed by Deb Miller at DC Metro Arts in 2019 about the Savage the Musical debut concert at New York Musical Festival