Australian.
Playwright. Dramatist.
Librettist. Director.

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

TIME REBEL

Hannah Moloney’s Time Rebel will be presented in Nipaluna/Hobart, Launceston, and Pataway/Burnie, featuring an extraordinary team of creative collaborators, including award-winning director Alana Valentine, musical director Amanda Hodder, and locally based community...

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...

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,...

News

Conversations Replay

Conversations Replay

ABC Radio's CONVERSATIONS will rebroadcast Sarah Kanowski's incredible conversation with Alana Valentine about her book WED BY THE WAYSIDE on Monday 17 March, 2025. First broadcast in July 2024, this one hour interview uncovers Alana's motivation for writing her stage...

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TIME REBEL

TIME REBEL

Hannah Moloney’s Time Rebel will be presented in Nipaluna/Hobart, Launceston, and Pataway/Burnie, featuring an extraordinary team of creative collaborators, including award-winning director Alana Valentine, musical director Amanda Hodder, and locally based community...

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Nucleus

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...

read more

Recent Works

Conversations Replay

Conversations Replay

ABC Radio's CONVERSATIONS will rebroadcast Sarah Kanowski's incredible conversation with Alana Valentine about her book WED BY THE WAYSIDE on Monday 17 March, 2025. First broadcast in July 2024, this one hour interview uncovers Alana's motivation for writing her stage...

read more
TIME REBEL

TIME REBEL

Hannah Moloney’s Time Rebel will be presented in Nipaluna/Hobart, Launceston, and Pataway/Burnie, featuring an extraordinary team of creative collaborators, including award-winning director Alana Valentine, musical director Amanda Hodder, and locally based community...

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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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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.