Artemis Montague is a Black mixed-race nonbinary composer-lyricist-librettist-singer with co-occurring disabilities. Montague was a finalist for the 2022 Write Out Loud Contest for their song, “friend” and received an Audiofemme Agenda Grant in May 2023 to record an EP of original music.
She Sings Me Home, their first full-length Black-, trans-, and queer-led musical, has been performed at the REACH at the Kennedy Center as part of the Page to Stage Festival; the Green Room 42 in NYC as a concert, and at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD as part of the 2nd Annual National Capital New Play Festival's workshops. In the summer of 2024, the show won a Map Fund Grant.
They have 160+ songs and two in-progress film scripts. Montague is also the IIDEAA Board chair for TEMPO (Trans Expansive Music Professional Organization) and a NYCLU Artist Ambassador.
While at MacDowell, they finished their third musical’s first draft. How Baby and the Ancestors Attempted a Revolution is a hip-hop influenced musical story about how the revolution starts at home, focusing on a character named BABY being visited by Marsha P. Johnson, Audre Lorde, and Dr. Rev. Prathia Hall on the eve of a political action at Cook County Jail. They also edited their second musical, Rhapsody in Sunflower Yellow while in residence.
