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RECENT, CURRENT AND UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS
Doctor Theatre
Thursday October 30 6 - 7pm Pitt Street Uniting Church This Blue Knot Day 30 October join us to experience renowned actress Lynette Curran and Alana Valentine present a short public reading of their new work together DOCTOR THEATRE. Inspired by Lynette's courageous...
Caribbean Echoes Launch Party
Thursday 23 October 5.30 - 7.30pm The Club Room at the Abercrombie Hotel Join us at the public launch of Caribbean Echoes, a four part series that investigates the lives of Caribbean people in Australia. Featuring Alana Valentine in Podcast 3 about the subject of...
School Workshops
Alana visits schools to talk about any of the four works she has on the Australian school syllabus'. In NSW Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah (English), Parramatta Girls (Drama) and Cyberbile (Design), as well as recently having Watermark added to the VCE, VCAA Performance...
Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan
Arts Centre Melbourne 21 - 28 November, 2026 book tickets
Currency Press Festival of Playwrights
Alana is chairing a session at the Currency Press Festival of Playwrights Writers vs AI with Claire Pullen, Lucy Hayward and Matthew Ngamurarri Heffernan Sunday August 24 at 11.20am - 12.20pm book tickets
National Play Summit
Alana recently appeared on the panel 'Getting It Made' at the National Play Summit, Riverside Parramatta on Saturday 28th June at 4pm. Hosted by Bali Padda, the panel featured Jordan Shea, Joanne Erskine and Alana as well as taking time to workshop challenges and...
Compass The Wayside Weddings
Playwright Alana Valentine discovers the revolutionary church community in Kings Cross that offered her mother the chance of a second wedding, as a divorcee in the 60s. The Wayside Chapel is a uniquely Australian institution. For decades, it has defied social taboos...
Student Journalism Speaker
15 - 18 August, 2025 Alana Valentine will speak at the HONI SOIT Student Journalism Conference on Sunday August 17 at 3pm more info
Time Rebel at Freemantle
TEN NIGHTS IN PORT Freemantle Festival August 7th, 2025 Reprising the success of TIME REBEL in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie - ABC TV’s Gardening Australia, climate activist, and sustainability educator, Hannah Moloney, brings her infectious energy and creativity to...
Baleen Moondjan
Brisbane Festival presents Baleen Moondjan at Queen's Wharf 18 - 21 September A powerful celebration of First Nations stories, totemic connections, and the sacred resilience of Country. Stephen Page combines contemporary dance and narrative storytelling with songs in...
People Of the Winter Beach
Development showing Commissioned by The Pavilion Sutherland in 2022 as part of its opening celebrations and in an effort to reflect back to the people of Sutherland stories from their own shire, People of the Winter Beach is an evocative work drawn from real life...
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...
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...
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,...
Baleen Moondjan
Stephen Page, co-writer Alana Valentine, music by Steve Francis, designed by Jacob Nash, costumes Jennifer Irwin, lighting Damien Cooper. Book tickets
Send For Nellie
Sydney Festival 10 - 14 January, 2024. Cabaret written by Alana Valentine, directed by Liesel Badorrek, performed by Elenoa Rokobaro. Book tickets
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...
The Doomsday Twins
Marilyn and Garnet Boles are two self-reliant twins who survive by making online web-content for a fee. When local young adults write in to talk about their lives, Marilyn and Garnet make videos with poems and songs to ease their apocalyptic angst. Just lately though,...
My Beautiful Man
On December 15, 2014 eighteen people were taken hostage in the Lindt Café in Sydney’s Martin Place. After a sixteen-hour standoff, a single gunshot was heard and police stormed the café. Tragically Tori Johnson, the heroic Lindt Café manager, lost his life that day,...
ARC by Erth
ARC brings to the stage stories of fragility and beauty. It is a brand new work that presents a rare opportunity to meditate amidst the hustle and bustle of a careless world. ARC is an extraordinary story of self-discovery and wonder told with theatrical magic and...