Heidi Weatherald is a theatre maker, actor, voice artist, and community engagement facilitator with over thirty years of experience creating work for stage, radio, screen, and public performance across Australia and internationally. 

She is currently developing intimate vocal and gestural performance works for babies and their families with Pocketfool.

Her performance career includes collaborations with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Seven Network and Nine Network. She has performed with leading theatre companies including Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company South Australia, Australian Shakespeare Company and Barking Spider Visual Theatre.

Heidi has worked extensively with ArtPlay, Splash Theatre Company, Regional Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne, Hobsons Bay City Council, Melbourne Recital Centre. She appeared in the iconic children’s television series Here's Humphrey and worked internationally in Denmark with Carte Blanche.

She designs and facilitates creative arts experiences in early childhood settings and schools (P–12), integrating drama, voice, movement, storytelling, and visual arts. Her research explores play as a powerful tool for emotional literacy and connection, including co-presenting Big Soft Toys for Big Feelings at the Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood International Conference (2025). 

Heidi also contributed as a studio assistant and sculptor alongside Artist Geoffrey Ricardo public sculpture Spirits of Time and Place, located along the Kooroit Creek Trail, Altona North.