For Off Broadway/Broadway American Indigenous or First Nations creatives
For Off Broadway/Broadway American Indigenous or First Nations creatives
We are in the pocess of currating this list.
ChoctaChickasaw Nation/Seminole Ancestry
Nicolette Blount is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, composer, lyricist, writer, performer, and producer. She is a 2024 Dramatist Guild F
ChoctaChickasaw Nation/Seminole Ancestry
Nicolette Blount is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, composer, lyricist, writer, performer, and producer. She is a 2024 Dramatist Guild Foundations National Musical Theatre Fellow. Nicolette is currently writing a dramatic nonfiction about her Chickasaw great grandma, Wanda Savage, and is the cowriter, composer and lyricist for the musical Savage: The Unconquerable Wanda Savage, which was a semifinalist for 2024 O’Neill’s NMTC. She is also working on the musical Riot Grrrl: The Punk Anti Musical and the musical Red: The Queen of Hearts Story. Her music has been heard at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, and at Laurie Beechman Theatre. Through her LLC, Take My Shot Productions, she coproduced the Off Broadway show A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet and is coproducing the new musical In Pieces. She is an investor for the Museum of Broadway and Millennials are Killing Musicals. She is the owner of nativetheatreartists.com, The music she self-produced for Savage has garnered 47K streams on all music platforms. Nicolette is a member of Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, Songwriters Guild of America, Society of Composers and Lyricists, TRU, Rise, Muse, and Maestra.
Choctaw
Having more than two decades of experience in the entertainment field, Elise Burks has become a "Jack of All Trades" in every sense of the term. Elise has worked in multiple arenas, from casting to writing to producing, for companies s
Choctaw
Having more than two decades of experience in the entertainment field, Elise Burks has become a "Jack of All Trades" in every sense of the term. Elise has worked in multiple arenas, from casting to writing to producing, for companies such as CBS/WBBM, FOX, NBC, Food Network and Bunim-Murray Productions. Currently, Elise works under the Operations department for Broadway In Chicago while also independently casting for multiple TV/Film/Commercial/Theatre projects for various agencies. Elise focuses her specific talents on bringing Indigenous, Native and POC talent to the forefront. Managing up and coming talent on breaking into the business is also a passion of Elise's, with the hopes of bringing under-represented talent the knowledge and power they need to be equipped with in order to get into the room. Representation matters.
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe
Danielle Jagelski is a conductor, composer, and producer. At home in both theatrical and orchestral realms, she is the Music Direct
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe
Danielle Jagelski is a conductor, composer, and producer. At home in both theatrical and orchestral realms, she is the Music Director and co-founder of Renegade Opera, Associate Conductor of PROTESTRA, Producer for First Nations Performing Arts, and Conducting Faculty at Manhattan School of Music precollege.
As an enrolled member and citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Redcliff Band of Ojibwe, Danielle often collaborates with other Native artists in multidisciplinary creative projects in order to sustain and further the visibility of Indigenous peoples in the fine arts realm. She is a lead producer for First Nations Performing Arts, and is a fierce advocate for equity in musical spaces, and has presented her research in mixed-race studies and classical music throughout the US and Canada.
As a composer, she is an avid writer of song, opera, choral, music for theatre, and narrative stories of all kinds. Her most recent premieres have been by New Native Theatre, MUSE Cincinnati Women’s Choir, Hear Us Hear Them Ensemble, Artemis Singers, and American Patriots Project. She is currently working on a new work commissioned by Voice of Ascension | Voices of the New to be premiered in April 2024.
Danielle is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Girls Who Conduct, and is the recipient of a 2022 Plimpton Foundation Award.
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