Creative Team

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Creator, Composer, Book Writer, and

Lyricist

Nicolette Blount  is a singer, actress, songwriter, writer, and vocal coach who is currently working on the new musical Savage, based on the true story of her Chickasaw great grandmother, Wanda Savage.  Although Nicolette is registered Chickasaw, she grew up with many different tribes as her mom taught at Sherman Indian School.  Born and raised in Southern California, she has been singing since she could speak, and has been performing and  writing since she was in elementary school.  She sang at Carnegie Hall and performed in two operas, Tosca and Turnadot  with the Palm Springs and Riverside Civic Operas.  In addition, she has performed on T.V. and radio.  While living in Hawaii, Nicolette wrote and recorded her first album called Conversations and toured with the Kanikapila Singers singing and dancing hula.   Nicolette started a nonprofit through which she organized and produced an annual festival of local visual and performing artists.   She currently resides in Massachusetts with her family were she continues to write music, lyrics and the book for Savage the musical and preforms in local theatre and bands. Nicolette is a member of the Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, and Maestra.

Book Writer

Lindel Hart is a writer and performer whose work has led him to stages in the U.S. and in Europe in traditional and experimental theatre. His work with New York performance artists include Ping Chong’s The Angels of Swedenborg (Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, PA) and Penny Arcade’s Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! (New York City and tours to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, London, Ireland, and the Vienna Festival). In 2013 Lindel was commissioned to write a new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in which he also portrayed the Creature. Its initial 9-show run in an abandoned bank building in downtown Greenfield, MA, (2014) sold out before the show opened, and Frankenstein was subsequently performed at the Springfield (MA) Museums, The Academy of Music (Northampton, MA) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has written poetry, plays, screenplays, fiction and memoir, as well as articles for print publications, and served as the on-air film critic for WQED-FM (Pittsburgh, PA) for three years. Lindel is a staple in plays and musicals in Western Massachusetts and appeared twice on the Real Housewives of New York City. He teaches yoga at Deerfield Academy. Lindel is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

Composer, Arranger

John Wayno has spent the last decade flying at high altitudes as the keyboardist of New England based roots-rock outfit, Barefoot Truth. The band’s most recent release, “Carry Us On”, debuted at #10 on Itunes Rock charts. Once the band took a hiatus from live shows, Wayno moved to Los Angeles to pursue audio production. While in LA, he and band mate Jay Driscoll co-founded HIIT interval music company, “Tabata Songs.” Amidst writing dozens of fitness music tracks to keep people energized and engaged while working to a timer, the company quickly accrued internet traction gaining over thousands of youtube and facebook views and follows. John is a private music teacher and continues to produce for select artists, Tabata Songs, and cowrites and produces for Savage.  In addition, he tours with JUMP Dance Convention teaching and providing Iive music for classes with world renown contemporary dance teacher, Teddy Forance. When he’s not practicing his high jump over the keyboard, he is steadily working towards his own work in hopes to release his second self titled EP this year! 

John is a member of BMI.

Director

Rachel Klein (Director) is a NYC based director, whose work The New York Times has praised: "What makes this show pop is the bracing vision of its director, Rachel Klein." Off-Broadway Direction: Red Roses, Green Gold (Minetta Lane Theatre/featuring the music of the Grateful Dead); Around the World in 80 Days (The Davenport Theatre); The Anthem (The Lynn Redgrave Theatre/starring Randy Jones, the Original Cowboy from the Village People); Gay Bride of Frankenstein (iStar Theatre Lab). Selected NYC Theatre: Tink! (New York Musical Festival); More Than All the World (adapted from Marlowe's Edward II); Symphony of Shadows (Jerome Robbins Foundation commission); A Midsummer Night's Dream; Circus of Circus (The House of Yes.) Selected Regional and Workshops: Hairspray (Jenny Wiley Amphitheater); Snow (Playwrights Horizons); Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera (Lucille Lortel Theatre); 54 The Musical (Axelrod Entertainment); Helen (A musical adapted from the Euripides play); Where Angels Fear to Tread (THML Theatre Co.) Ms. Klein directed the roast of Michael Musto which raised money for the Callen Lorde Community Health Center, featuring Rosie O'Donnell, Bruce Vilanch, Bianca Del Rio and Jinkx Monsoon. 

Investor

Dr. Blount, Take My Shot Productions, produced Savage the Musical's first NYC concert at New York Musical Festival in 2019, financed Savage's five singles currently streaming  (Wanda Savage, Currency of Men, Cat's Meow, Take My Shot, and Warrior), and coproduced the first local, community  production of Savage the Musical which was halted mid rehearsal when COVID hit.  As a supporter and investor of musical theatre, he is passionate about keeping the arts in schools.  Christopher is a patron of local theatre in Massachusetts and helped fund the new, state-of-the-art Ja'Duke Theater.  In his spare time, he enjoys encouraging and watching his family perform on stage.  He is excited to see Savage on the big stage in NYC in the future.