Creative Team

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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 great grandmother, Wanda Savage.  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, performed in two operas, Tosca and Turnadot  with the Palm Springs and Riverside Civic Operas, and has performed on T.V. and radio.  While living in Hawaii, Nicolette wrote and recorded her first album called Conversations and sang/danced hula, and toured with the Kanikapila Singers.   Nicolette started a nonprofit through which she organized and produced an annual festival of local visual and performing artists.   She enjoys fashion illustration in her spare time and has been a costume designer for select musicals.  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 band

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.

Composer, Arranger, Lyricist

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!