Theatre artist, playwright, speaker, educator and nonprofit leader, Amy Wheeler has built a career around bringing people together, across generations, to collaborate on inspiring productions, innovative programs, and spirited events imbued with a social justice message. Wheeler led the nonprofit Hedgebrook for 13 years, evolving it from a Whidbey Island-based residency program into a global community of influential womxn writers authoring change in the arts (literary, film, television and music), culture, politics and social justice. Celebrating the culmination of her tenure in 2020, Seattle Arts & Lectures recognized Wheeler with the Prowda Literary Champion Award for “demonstrating true commitment to the Pacific Northwest’s community of readers and writers.” A Yaddo fellow and Hedgebrook alum, Wheeler holds an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts, and an MFA from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Her current ventures are: DANCEHALL PRODUCTIONS with her wife RK Buzard, bringing to the stage and screen stories, real and imagined, of those who have been left out of, silenced or erased from the patriarchal narrative; and PLAY CLUB: a Book Club with a Theatrical Twist.