Australian.
Playwright. Dramatist.
Librettist. Director.
Alana Valentine is an Australian playwright, dramatist, librettist and Director working in theatre, film, opera and television.
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Nucleus
14 Feb to 15 March Griffin Theatre at Seymour Centre Gabriel is a nuclear engineer. Cassie is an anti-nuclear campaigner. For nearly thirty years their lives have collided and entwined, with Cassie’s cause dominating public opinion across the decades. But with...
Watershed:The Death of Dr Duncan
Written as an oratorio, Watershed turns the illicit into the sacred, through powerful choral music, solo voices and dance. It fuses inquest transcripts, press clippings, private correspondence and monologues spanning five decades of anti-gay violence, and...
Wed By The Wayside
These stories drawn from people married at the Wayside Chapel in Sydney reshape our understanding of this country's social history, from a uniquely Australian institution where people have been welcomed for decades in spite of social taboos around race, class,...
Recent Works
Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan
Watershed, a ravishing new operatic work and the hit of the 2022 Adelaide Festival, is a collaboration between some of Australia's most acclaimed creative talents. Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas have created a searing libretto for Joe Twist's luscious score,...
RSWWF Send For Nellie
16 September 2023 Experience ‘SEND FOR NELLIE’ a captivating cabaret work by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine. Focussing on Nellie Small, a West Indian-Australian performer from 1930’s Sydney, this is an opportunity to witness the creative development of this...
Notre Dame for Brandenburg Orchestra
Spirited, soulful and unapologetically French, Notre-Dame commemorates eight centuries of exquisite music performed within Notre-Dame de Paris. It is a story told in a moving theatrical experience of spoken word penned by award-winning playwright and director Alana...
Wayside Bride
Wayside Bride is an oral history project to gather stories from people who have been married at the Wayside Chapel over the five decades of its history.
