Producers, General Managars, Directors and more

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ChoctaChickasaw Nation/Seminole Ancestry

• Singer/Actress/Writer/Composer/Lyricist/ Produce
• MA/NYC
• Representation: Park and Fine Literary Agents: : Sara Passik & Melissa Rodman  
• https://nicoletteblount.com/

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.  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.  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

• Casting Agent, Film Producer
• In Chicago, willing to travel.
• IG @Momagerburks
• Eliseburkspffc@yahoo.com

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.

Osage Nation Tribal Member

• Actor/Director/Choreographer/Educator
• Based in Chicago, willing to travel
• Currently seeking representation
• Actors Equity Association (AEA) & American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)
• IG: @Austin.Ryan.Hunt
• AustinRyanHunt@me.com
• AustinRyanHunt.com

Austin Ryan Hunt is a Chicago-based actor, director, choreographer, and educator and proud member of the Osage Nation. Recent stage credits include King James at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Fiddler on the Roof with Chicago Lyric Opera, and shows like An American in Paris, Newsies, MEMPHIS, and others with regional theaters across the country. Austin studied Shakespeare at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre and graduated from the School at Steppenwolf in 2018.

Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe

• Composer/music director/creative producer
• Instruments: Voice, Piano, Trumpet
• Dramatist Guild
• Local to NYC
• https://daniellejagelski.com
• daniellejagelski@gmail.com

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.

Métis Nation of Alberta 

• Actor/Producer/ Production manager/ Production coordinator
• Local to NYC
• SAG-Aftra & Actors Equity Association (AEA)
• Agent : Take 3 Talent 
• Manager: Rebel Creative Group
• Instagram
• Facebook
• www.tanisparenteau.com

Tanis Parenteau is an actor/producer and member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. TV: Billions, FBI: Most Wanted, Gossip Girl, Designated Survivor, House of Cards, Tribal. Film: ReEntry, Sweet Summer Pow Wow, Rehab. NYC theatre: The Public Theater, Signature Theater, 59E59 Theaters. Regional theatre: Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As a producer, her debut short film, A Big Black Space, had its broadcast premiere on ARTÉ and her most recent short, ‘Dating Indian’, won Best Comedy at Edmonton Short Film Festival and was nominated for an AMPIA Rosie Award for Best Scripted Production Under 30 Minutes. Tanis produced and stars in the APTN lumi series, ‘Jason’, which premiered February 14th. Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The New School for Drama.