A new musical inspired by the true story of Chickasaw 1920s star Wanda Savage.
Creative Team
Nicolette Blount
Nicolette Blount
Nicolette Blount
Book, Lyrics, Music
Nicolette Blount is a member of the Chickasaw Nation and a musical theatre composer, lyricist, and writer. She is the first Native American Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellow. She was named one of the 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway by the Broadway Women's Fund. Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage is based o
Book, Lyrics, Music
Nicolette Blount is a member of the Chickasaw Nation and a musical theatre composer, lyricist, and writer. She is the first Native American Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellow. She was named one of the 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway by the Broadway Women's Fund. Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage is based on her Chickasaw great-grandmother and has received numerous national accolades and recognition.
Savage has been featured in Playbill, Native Max Magazine, the Chickasaw Times, and BroadwayWorld. Nicolette has appeared on Mass Appeal (22 News) and numerous theatre podcasts including Musical Theatre Radio, Breaking the Curtain, and Women of Theatre. Her music has been performed at 54 Below, New York Theatre Workshop, La MaMa, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Broadway Sessions, Joe's Pub, and the Green Room 42.
Nicolette is a sought-after speaker on Native representation in theatre, with appearances at the Harvard Club NYC, Native Artist's Town Halls, and the Longmont Museum in Colorado.
In addition to Savage, Nicolette is currently developing the musicals Riot Grrrl: The Anti-Punk Musical, Bad Girls of the Bible, and Off With Your Head!. She is also writing Unconquerable, a hybrid memoir about her great-grandmother Wanda Savage, and is a contributing writer for Breaking the Grrrl, an online zine.
In addition to her writing work, Nicolette is an experienced performer and producer with extensive credits in both disciplines. Nicolette is the founder of nativetheatreartists.com, a free industry directory dedicated to increasing visibility for American Indigenous and First Nations theatre creatives on and Off-Broadway.
Nicolette is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, Maestra, Society of Composers and Lyricists, Songwriters Guild of America, RISE, and MUSE.
Lindel Hart
Nicolette Blount
Nicolette Blount
Book
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 tour
Book
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 Dramatists Guild.
Rachel Klein
Nicolette Blount
Rachel Klein
Director
Rachel Klein (Director, SDC) is a New York City-based director and director/choreographer of Cherokee, Algonquian, and Nanticoke ancestry (unenrolled) specializing in new play and musical development. West End credits include Bettie Page Queen of Pinups, the Musical in concert at the Lyric Theatre (starring Shona McGarty). Off-Br
Director
Rachel Klein (Director, SDC) is a New York City-based director and director/choreographer of Cherokee, Algonquian, and Nanticoke ancestry (unenrolled) specializing in new play and musical development. West End credits include Bettie Page Queen of Pinups, the Musical in concert at the Lyric Theatre (starring Shona McGarty). Off-Broadway: The Gospel According to Heather (Theatre 555, starring Katey Sagal); Red Roses, Green Gold (Minetta Lane Theatre); Around the World in 80 Days (The Davenport Theatre); The Anthem (Lynn Redgrave Theatre). Regional and international credits include Spells of the Sea at the Kennedy Center (2024 season), I Was a Teenage She-Devil (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Esther (The George Theatre, starring Sharna Burgess), The Suffragist (Gallagher Bluedorn Theatre, starring Nancy Opel), and 54 the Musical (starring Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Frankie Grande). Her work has been presented at New York Theatre Workshop, Lincoln Center's Merkin Hall, La MaMa E.T.C., the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, among others. Ms. Klein is the Director/Showrunner of the audio series The World to Come (featuring Adrienne Barbeau), a founding member of Iconoclast Theatre Collective, a guest teaching artist at Fordham University, and serves on the New Musical Screening Committee for NAMT. Represented by Amy Wagner at Stewart Talent. www.rachelkleindirector.com