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Chickasaw Nation/Seminole Ancestry

• Singer/Actress/Writer/Composer/Lyricist/ Producer
• 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.  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.

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.

 Dakota-Cree

• Writer/actor
• SAG-Aftra
• Local to NYC
• matlanger@hotmail.com 

Matt Langer is an actor and writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A member of Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. Matt attended Stella Adler Studio of Acting Conservatory and his undergrad at University of Toronto. Recent theater credits include

the Carnegie Hall produced Voices of Hope theatre festival production of “Soledad” by Carolyn Dunn. “Trojan Woman” at Theater for the New City. “Cedars” at Lamama. Television credits include “Evil Lives Here” on Max, and the short “Don’t Think About It” for which he won best actor at the Grove Film Festival. Scripts and writing samples available upon request. The most recent, “Intersections” is an urban drama set in Chicago examining systemic racism in America. Matt is repped by Bicoastal talent for commercial, VO, and print/media. Baker management for other acting consideration. Currently open for literary representation. based

out of Brooklyn, NY. 

Yaqui/Yoeme descent 

• Writer/actress/voice over artist/ singer/dancer
• Based in Los Angeles but am willing to travel to NYC and beyond.
• SAG-Aftra & Actors Equity Association (AEA)
• Representation:                      Theatrical & Commercial: BBR Talent-Stuart K. Robinson & Dan Mullinex Daniel Mullenix 323.852.9559 ex.702
• Voice Over Rep: DDO Artists Agency Julie Gutz & Cassie GelfandJulie 323‑487‑7735 (ext. 109) julie@ddoagency.com  Cassie 323‑487‑7735 (ext. 302)  cassie@ddoagency.com323‑487‑7735 (ext. 302) 323‑487‑7735 (ext. 302)
• imdb.me/burgandiphoenix
• instagram.com/burgandiphoenix 
• burgandiphoenix@gmail.com
• www.burgandiphoenix.com

Los Angeles-based actor, dancer, voice-over artist, singer, and writer Burgandi Trejo Phoenix stars in the new Emmy-nominated Netflix series, ‘Spirit Rangers’. The animated series is created, written, and performed by an almost entirely Native/Indigenous team. Burgandi, who has Native/Indigenous (Yaqui), Mexican, and Spanish roots, uses her voice in the industry to campaign for the accurate representation of Chicana-Mexican Indigenous women on and off-screen. She’s also appeared in Snapchat’s ‘Relationship Goals’, YouTube’s ‘Labeled’ (Atlantic Records), and ‘Love in the Time of Corona’.An accomplished voice artist, Burgandi has brought numerous characters to life including Nickelodeon’s ‘The Loud House’, on Disney+, on the award-winning podcast, ‘The Royals of Malibu’, on the award-winning ‘Cookie Run Kingdom’ and many more. She’s a proud member of SAG-Aftra and AEA, is the brand ambassador for Talentboom.com, is the founder of The Actor Toolkit on Clubhouse, and owner of the blog ‘My Feisty Life’.

Chickasaw Nation

• Playwright/dramatur/

                   librettist/consultant

• Not local to NYC, Willing to travel
• Member of Writers Guild of America West
• laurashamas.bsky.social (Blue Sky)
• @laurashamas (Post.News)
• www.laurashamas.com
• www.laurashamas.com/contact

Laura Annawyn Shamas was born in Oklahoma, and lives in Los Angeles. She’s an

enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation. She is a 2023 Winner of the Los Angeles

New Play Project Playwriting Award ($20,000) – lanpp.org. FOUR WOMEN IN RED

will be produced at the Victory Theatre Center in 2025. In 2024, she’s part of the

ReproEco theater project with ReproFreedomArts.org.

FOUR WOMEN IN RED was part of the 2022 Festival of New Plays at Native Voices at

the Autry. A monologue from the play was published in the Smith and Kraus

anthology: 2022 – Best Women’s Stage Monologues. In 2021, Shamas was part of the

Indigenous Writers Collaborative at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Laura Shamas’ many plays include: CIRCULAR (published in 2024), PICNIC AT

HANGING ROCK (adaptation), PORTRAIT OF A NUDE, LADY-LIKE, CHASING

HONEY, THE OTHER SHAKESPEARE, TALKING LEAVES (Winner – Garrard Best

Play Award - Five Civilized Tribes Museum), and AMELIA LIVES. Her short play

SEEDS won the Von Marie Atchley Award for Excellence in Playwriting from Native

Voices in 2017. She’s written forty plays.

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians  

• Actor/playwright/ musician 
• Instruments: guitar, piano, voice
• Based in MA, willing to travel

 Tomantha is an Ojibwe, multidisciplinary storyteller (actor, musician, songwriter, playwright, beader) residing in Massachusetts. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lake Superior State University. She is a Miranda Family Fellow through the National Theater Institute, and an Art and Survival Fellow through Double Edge Theatre and Betty’s Daughter Arts Collective. Sylvester is an ensemble member through Double Edge Theater and an Emerging Native Artist through the Ohketeau Cultural Center where she also works in community advocacy. She believes that storytelling comes in many forms and is a practical and necessary component to healing, joy, and knowledge. “We are constantly surrounded by language and images and that they have the power to shift and change our realities. The type of language we’re using, the stories we are being told, and who tells them are critical when shaping a world of truth and connection. This is not a simple philosophy but a scientific reality may ancestors have known since time immemorial."

• tomantha@ohketeau.org

Ojibwe, registered Sault Ste. Marie tribe. 

• Storyteller/playwright/ lyricist/librettist/ public speaker/educator
• Boulder, CO. Willing to travel for opportunities
• AEA (inactive), Dramatists Guild (active)
• NPX Profile 
• marty_s@mac.com

Marty Strenczewilk is an Ojibwe storyteller, playwright, librettist and lyricist, registered with the Sault Ste. Marie tribe. His first full-length play Pink Man or The Only Indian in the Room was the winner of the 2023 Crossroads Project Diverse Voices playwriting competition. The competition culminated in a workshop and residency at Illinois State University. His second full-length play Accountability, A Tragedy has been selected for development by InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia and is under consideration for their 2024 season. Marty is also the story editor for season 6 of the NPR podcast The Modern West, which explores the true history behind the Plains Indian Wars. His broad theatrical experience includes more than fifteen years of work in production, performing, design, administration and education across Off-Broadway, regional and touring work. Marty is also the co-founder of a successful video game startup that grew to 120 employees before it was acquired in 2019. His education includes a Theatre BA from SUNY Buffalo and additional studies at The Barrow Group, Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey, HB Studio, and Joffrey Ballet. He is part of the Leadership Council for Creative Nations, an all Indigenous led artists collective, founded at The Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. His plays can be found on NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/66176/marty-strenczewilk