Artistic Director

Playwright/Producer, and Artistic Director of Heat Theatre – Wanda Graham

Wanda is an award-winning Nova Scotian writer and actor. During her five year tenure as Artistic Director of Stage East Theatre in Halifax she produced 13 shows, including nine new plays, four musicals and nine touring shows. Kill Zone a love story is Part Two of her military trilogy for theatre. BRAT, Part One, premiered at Neptune Theatre.

Her other military-related art includes documentary Military Wives Shut out Shut Up Shut Down which premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival and on CTV Regional and National; screenplay Wall of Silence, which won the Atlantic Film Festival’s $12,000 CBC-Linda Joy prize and long form documentaries Brats: Defying Gravity and Line of Fire: Canada’s Female Soldiers for CBC Radio.

Check out the announcement of the playwrights for the 2023 PARC Retreat at Mount Allison University!

Heat Theatre has certainly proven itself in the arts community as a force to be acknowledged.

- Myra Freeman, Former Lt-Governor Nova Scotia, Patron Heat Theatre

Kill Zone a Love Story is the rarest of phenomena: the right force at the right time, educating and healing exactly when needed most.

- Eva Moore, Artistic Producer, New Act, Bala

Heat Theatre is saying something important, and it is wonderful to hear.

- Rosemary Gilbert, Portmanteau Productions, Montreal