Amy Wheeler
Amy Wheeler is the former Executive Director of Hedgebrook, a nonprofit organization supporting a global community of women and non-binary writers authoring change on Whidbey Island, where she served for 13 years. Wheeler is a feminist,[1] playwright, actor[2] and an alumna of Hedgebrook and Yaddo. Her plays are Getting Over the Rainbow (formerly Wizzer Pizzer), Two Birds & a Stone, Driven (formerly Weeping Woman), Every Atom, Always Beginning, and Intersection. Projects currently in development: The Last Babushka and A Mighty Craic.
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As Executive Director of Hedgebrook, Wheeler founded the with alumna Gloria Steinem. Under her leadership, Hedgebrook launched a popular Radical Hospitality cookbook,[3][4][5] 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.[6] She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and has taught playwriting at the University of Iowa, Cornish College of the Arts, , Richard Hugo House, and in ACT Theatre's Young Playwrights Program.[7]
She lives on Whidbey Island, WA, with her wife and son.
Recognition[]
Amy was playwright-in-residence at Stark Raving Theatre from 2005 - 2007.[8] 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[9]
Productions[]
"Two Birds & a Stone", OCU, Oklahoma City, OK, 2015[7]
"Wizzer Pizzer: Getting Over the Rainbow", Theatre22, Seattle, WA, 2015[10]
References[]
- ^ "Amy Wheeler, Hedgebrook, and feminism". The Feminist Wire.
- ^ "Shakespeare Festival offers tales of power, honor, redemption". South Whidbey Record.
- ^ The Christian Science Monitor. "Radical hospitality, nurturing comfort: Italian chicken stew". The Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "'Radical hospitality' at the Hedgebrook writers colony". The Seattle Times.
- ^ Los Angeles Times (14 February 2014). "Meals beyond words from the Hedgebrook writers' retreat". latimes.com.
- ^ "Theatrical Mustang Podcast". podbean.com.
- ^ a b "OCU presents "Two Birds And A Stone" by nationally recognized Oklahoma playwright Amy Wheeler". city-sentinel.com.
- ^ "Weeping Woman". Portland Mercury.
- ^ "Manifesto Series V.3: A THEATER OF DEFIANCE: Naomi Iizuka, Yussef El Guindi, Bret Fetzer, Stephen McCandless, Elizabeth Heffron, Chris Jeffries, Paul Mullin, Wayne Rawley, Amy Wheeler, K. Brian Neel: 9780972476355: Amazon.com: Books". amazon.com.
- ^ "'Wizzer Pizzer' Is Entertaining and the Perfect Production for Seattle's Capitol Hill". The Huffington Post.
- American dramatists and playwrights
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