Savage the Musical at Ja’Duke Theater

Nicolette Blount is a singer, actress, songwriter, writer, and producer who has performed around the U.S.. Nicolette is a tribal member of the Chickasaw Nation who was born and raised in Southern California. Her songwriting came at a young age and she started to write lyrics and songs as a teen. She has written numerous poems, plays, and fictional works. Nicolette’s musical influences are diverse, she has fronted jazz bands, rock bands, and has been trained classically. Some of Nicolette’s performance highlights have been singing at Carnegie Hall and Performing in two operas Tosca and Turandot with the Palm Springs and Riverside Civic Operas. Her favorite roles to date are Ms. Hannigan in Annie and Ms. Andrews in Mary Poppins. While living in Hawaii, Nicolette wrote and recorded her first album, Conversations, toured with the Kanikapila Singers singing and dancing hula, and started a nonprofit through which she organized and produced an annual festival of local visual and performing artists. Nicolette started the production company, Take My Shot Productions. Through her company she co-produced the Off Broadway show A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (Alex Wyse & Ben Fankhauser , Cody Lassen lead Producer) and has invested in the Museum of Broadway. Nicolette attended University of Hawaii with a double major of voice and theatre. Nicolette is a member of the Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, and Maestra. She currently resides in Massachusetts where she is working on Savage the Musical and continues to perform in local musicals.

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. 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 and is a cowriter for Savage the Musical. Lindel is a Dramatist Guild member.

John Waynelovich (AKA Wayno) has spent the last decade flying at high altitudes as the keyboardist for the New England based roots-rock band, Barefoot Truth. The band’s most recent release, “Carry Us On”, debuted at #1 on the iTunes Rock charts. The band members, including John, were recently shot for a Hallmark movie. Wayno got his BA in music at Westfield State University and studied audio production in Los Angeles. He started the HIIT internal musical company Tabata Songs with his Barefoot Truth bandmate Jay Driscoll which has millions of streams and thousands of YouTube and Facebook followers. John is a private music teacher and continues to produce for selected artists, in addition he tours with the JUMP Dance Convention providing live music for classes with world renowned dance teachers. John continues to co- compose music for Savage the Musical and hopes to release his own album soon. John is a member of BMI.