Alana Valentine Alana Valentine i(A20770 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Alana Valentine has written numerous nominated and award-winning radio plays as well as episodes of the television series McLeod's Daughters and Fat Tuesday. She has written several short films including the Mother Love (1994), The Witnesses (1995) and Reef Dreaming (1997) - a waterscreen installation in Darling Harbour. Valentine's plays have toured Australia extensively, particlarly in country areas, been performed in Malaysia, and broadcast in Iceland. A 1989 NIDA graduate, Valentine also has a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies (2000) from the University of Sydney. She has been a 2006 Artist in Residence (Creative Arts) at the University of Wollongong, and also in 2006, at Macquarie University Department of English.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $50,000.00
2017 joint recipient Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship
2013 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships New Work - Established Writers Writing for Performance

Awards for Works

Watershed : The Death of Dr Duncan 2022 single work musical theatre opera

'Fusing inquest transcripts, press clippings, private correspondence, real and imagined monologues spanning five decades of anti-gay violence, and 30 years of research by local historian Tim Reeves, this joint commission between Adelaide Festival, Feast Festival and State Opera South Australia demands the embrace of all thinking audiences, but is of special importance to this city.'

Source: State Opera South Australia.

2024 winner AWGIE Awards Music Theatre
y separately published work icon Wayside Bride 2021 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2023 21655270 2021 single work drama

'After years of research, and a lot of help from the community, Alana Valentine’s much-anticipated story of a little chapel in a back street of the Cross premieres at Belvoir. The Wayside Chapel under the Reverend Ted Noffs set itself up for those who might not find a place elsewhere to welcome them, and over the years has become a home and haven in a sometimes brutal town.

'This play is about the quietly revolutionary act of marriage – sometimes in the face of fierce resistance from family, from society, from the church hierarchy. It’s the story of a space where those who didn’t quite fit in to the mainstream could have their walk down the aisle.

'Moving, inspiring, Valentine’s play is about all of us – and a portrait of this city at its raffish, recalcitrant best.' (Production summary)

2024 shortlisted AWGIE Awards Stage Award Original
Flight Memory 2019 single work musical theatre

'INVENTOR. DISSENTER. INERTIA BUSTER

'A mesmerising series of songs. A spellbinding portrait of scientific endeavour. A homage to invention in our country that will inspire and challenge the belief ‘everything good gets invented somewhere else’.

'This compelling story of visionary Australian scientist David Warren and the invention that transformed technological and aeronautical history explores the core human emotions behind the world-changing Black Box Flight Recorder. Feel the pain of parochialism, the unconscious grind of childhood grief, and the elation of hard-won success.'

Source: The Street Theatre.

2020 nominated AWGIE Awards Music Theatre
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