Creative Team

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Creator, Composer, Book Writer, and

Lyricist

Nicolette Blount is a producer, singer, actress, songwriter, and writer.  Savage, is based on Nicolette’s Chickasaw great grandmother, Wanda Savage.  Nicolette is also a member of the Chickasaw tribe.  Born and raised in Southern CA, she grew up with many different tribes as her mom taught at Sherman Indian 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.  Nicolette started a nonprofit through which she organized and produced an annual festival of local visual and performing artists, Grace 4 U.  Nicolette is co-owner and producer at Take My Shot Productions  Through TMS she coproduced the Off Broadway show A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet and is an investor for the Museum of Broadway. She owns Underground Demos  a subsidiary of Take My Shot Productions. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her family were she continues to write music, lyrics and the book for Savage the musical and performs 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, Music Supervisor: Jeff Chimenti of Dead and Company); 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 for Dixon Place); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shrunken Shakespeare); Circus of Circus (The House of Yes); The Tragedy of Maria Macabre (La MaMa/The Kitchen/DUMBO Dance Festival, Tides Foundation commission.) Selected Regional: The Suffragist (World Premier starring Nancy Opel at the Gallagher Bluedorn Theatre); Dead Certain (Composer: Air Supply’s Graham Russell); Hairspray (Jenny Wiley Theatre); 54 the Musical (House of Independents, starring MJ Rodriguez and Frankie Grande). Audio Series: The World to Come (director, show-runner, co-creator, co-producer/featuring Adrienne Barbeau.) Ms. Klein is a founding member of Iconoclast Theatre Collective, has served as Artistic Director of Belle Reve Productions, and directed the charity roast of Michael Musto which raised funds for the Callen Lorde Community Health Center, featuring Rosie O'Donnell, Bruce Vilanch, Bianca Del Rio and Jinkx Monsoon. For more info: http://www.rachelkleindirector.com/

Investor/Producer

When Dr. Blount is not operating, he is helping others with their artistic dreams. He became co-owner and a coproducer at Take My Shot Productions in 2021.  He financed Savage the Musical's first NYC concert at New York Musical Festival in 2019, Savage's EP currently streaming  (Wanda Savage, Currency of Men, Cat's Meow, Take My Shot, Start Again, 

Lighten Up, and Warrior), and is coproducing the first developmental production of Savage the Musical in MA.  He recently co-produced the Off Broadway show A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet  by Broadway's Alex Wyse and Ben Fankhauser and lead Tony award winning producer, Cody Lassen.  He is also an investor for the Museum of Broadway.  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.