Biography

Alana is also an accomplished director, most recently directing Hannah Moloney’s Time Rebel for Ten Days on the Island in 2025, to a capacity audience at Hobart’s Theatre Royal, Burnie Town Hall and Launceston’s Ark. In 2024 Alana directed her AWGIE Award winning narrative poem Notre Dame, for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, premiering at the Melbourne Recital Hall, then Sydney City Recital Hall. In 2017 Alana was nominated as Best Director in the Tasmanian Theatre Awards for her direction of The Tree Widows for the Tasmanian Theatre Company, about an avenue of memorial trees in Hobart’s Domain, commissioned by Ten Days on the Island, Hobart City Council and the Friends of the Soldier’s Memorial Avenue. For the 2012 Festival of Sydney Alana directed Barefoot Divas: Walk A Mile In My Shoes, which toured to North America and Canada in 2014 and sold out the Hong Kong Concert Hall at the HKIAF in 2015. In 2016 Alana co-directed a production of One Billion Beats, co-written with Indigenous poet and visionary Romaine Moreton, presented at Campbelltown Arts Centre. In 2008 she wrote and directed Watermark for Katherine Regional Arts and Elderflowers for the Older and Wiser Festival in South Sydney in 2009. She also directed and wrote The Modest Aussie Cozzie for the St Ignatius College’s Storylines Cultural Festival in November 2009. Alana has also directed numerous children’s theatre productions including the stage plays The Prospectors and The Mapmaker’s Brother at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Radio Silence at the Australian War Memorial, and an 8 week sold out season of Ratticus and Reidar at the Hyde Park Barracks. For ABC Radio Alana directed more than thirty radio plays and features, working with hundreds of actors, technicians and other writers.