Amy Wheeler

Amy Wheeler is the Executive Director of Hedgebrook. She is a feminist, playwright, actor and an alumna of Hedgebrook and Yaddo. Her best known plays are "Wizzer Pizzer: Getting Over the Rainbow" and "Two Birds & a Stone."

As Executive Director of Hedgebrook, Wheeler founded the Creative Advisory Council with alumna Gloria Steinem. Under her leadership, Hedgebrook launched a popular Radical Hospitality cookbook, received a prestigious Humanitas Prize, and launched the first screenwriters' residency for women.

Born and raised in Oklahoma, she is the daughter of Jim (a Methodist minister) and Jo Wheeler. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and has taught playwriting at the University of Iowa, Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Studio Theatre Lab, Richard Hugo House, and in ACT Theatre's Young Playwrights Program.

She lives on Whidbey Island, WA, with her wife and son.

Recognition

Amy was playwright-in-residence at Stark Raving Theatre from 2005 - 2007. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and an Artist Trust fellowship in Ireland. Her play "Wizzer Pizzer" was included in the 2012 Manifesto Series V.3: A THEATRE OF DEFIANCE

Productions

"Two Birds & a Stone", OCU, Oklahoma City, OK, 2015

"Wizzer Pizzer: Getting Over the Rainbow", Theatre22, Seattle, WA, 2015