Australian.
Playwright. Dramatist.
Librettist. Director.

Alana Valentine is an Australian playwright, dramatist, librettist and Director working in theatre, film, opera and television.

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,...

NOTRE DAME Brandenburg

'Valentine’s script, with its internal rhyming and heightened poetic register, is cleverly attuned to the music surrounding it, and the integration of Hugo’s soaring prose exulting the grand dame is deeply persuasive. Notre Dame was never just a building; it was a...

Send For Nellie

Sydney Festival 10 - 14 January, 2024. Cabaret written by Alana Valentine, directed by Liesel Badorrek, performed by Elenoa Rokobaro. Book tickets

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Watershed:The Death of Dr Duncan

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...

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Wed By The Wayside

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,...

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Baleen Moondjan

Baleen Moondjan

Stephen Page, co-writer Alana Valentine, music by Steve Francis, designed by Jacob Nash, costumes Jennifer Irwin, lighting Damien Cooper. Book tickets

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Recent Works

Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan

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,...

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RSWWF Send For Nellie

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...

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Notre Dame for Brandenburg Orchestra

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...

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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.