Artemis Montague is a Black mixed nonbinary composer-lyricist-librettist-singer with co-occurring disabilities.
They released a song called "could you (i'm yours)" in December 2024. Montague was a finalist for the 2022 Write Out Loud Contest for their song, “friend”, received an Audiofemme Agenda Grant in May 2023 to record an EP of original music, and was honored with a National Disability Theatre Grant in 2023. They were a participating Lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop as well.
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 with Ally Theatre Company; the Green Room 42 in NYC as a concert in February 2023, and at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD as part of the 2nd Annual National Capital New Play Festival's workshops, and was presented at Broadway Shark Tank in October 2023. In the summer of 2024, the show won a Map Fund Grant to do a developmental reading of the musical. The reading will be at Caveat in NYC on February 3, 2025 at 7pm Eastern.
They have 2 in-progress musicals (HOW BABY AND THE ANCESTORS ATTEMPTED A REVOLUTION and RHAPSODY IN SUNFLOWER YELLOW); 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. They are currently seeking representation.