Artemis Montague

Biography

Artemis Montague is a Black mixed queer and genderfluid Musical Theatre Writer.

Having received an undergraduate degree in Women's and Gender Studies​, they have dedicated much of their time to arts advocacy and social justice. Their musicals concern topics such as the mental health industrial complex; the struggle of wanting to survive late-stage capitalism vs. making art; and the revolutionary nature of radical self-love and community.

As a Musical Theatre Writer, they first wrote SHE SINGS ME HOME, their first Black-, trans-, and queer-led musical love story, which was part of the now-defunct Page to Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center in November 2020. The musical then had a successful concert at NYC's own The Green Room 42 on February 6, 2023, as well as a full workshop at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD as part of their 2nd Annual National Capital New Play Festival from May 1-6, 2023. It was awarded a 2024 MAP Fund Grant and had a developmental reading on February 3, 2025 at Caveat in NYC. Their first Joe’s Pub concert as a musical theatre writer is on July 29, 2026 at 7pm in NYC. The concert will showcase their 2 in-progress musicals (HOW BABY AND THE ANCESTORS ATTEMPTED A REVOLUTION and RHAPSODY IN SUNFLOWER YELLOW) as well as SHE SINGS ME HOME.

They have over 190+ songs, one of which was a finalist for the 2022 Write Out Loud Contest (“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 in 2022.