Alana Valentine

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Alana Valentine
Occupation
Education University of Technology Sydney (1983)
University of Sydney (2000)
Genre
  • Theatre
  • film
  • opera
  • television
Notable awards Australian Writers Guild (many); Helpmann Award

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

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Early life and education

Alana Valentine graduated with a Bachelor of Communications from University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 1983. [1]

She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies from the University of Sydney (2000). [2]

Career

Valentine wrote her first play Multiple Choice, in 1985, mentored by Alex Buzo. [3] It was staged by the Australian Theatre for Young People as part of the Sydney Festival in 1986. [4]

She has also written for television and film, starting with the series Lady Chaplain on SBS Television, and later McLeod's Daughters . She has written for short films, including Mother Love (1994), The Witnesses (1995), and Reef Dreaming (1997). [5] [6] She co-wrote the 2011 short film Moth with Meryl Tankard, which Tankard directed. It was shown in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. [7]

Valentine has collaborated as a co-writer and dramaturg with Aboriginal director and choreographer Stephen Page on many productions for Bangarra Dance Theatre since 2011, [8] including Patyegarang in 2014 [9] Bennelong in 2017, [10] and Wudjang: Not the Past in 2022. [11]

Valentine first worked with Vicki Gordon Music Productions to create the First Nations show Barefoot Divas, Walk a Mile in My Shoes. The work premiered at the Sydney Festival in 2012, toured North America in 2014 and was staged at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2015.[ citation needed ] In 2016 Gordon commissioned Valentine and Ursula Yovich to co-write the First Nations rock musical Barbara and the Camp Dogs. This premiered at the Belvoir Theatre in Sydney in December 2017, [12] [13] returning for an encore run at the Belvoir in April 2019 before touring the country that year. [14] [15]

The Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney commissioned the work Made to Measure, completed by Valentine while she was writer-in-residence, and presented in 2019 at the Seymour Centre. Also in 2019, she co-wrote the libretto for Flight Memory, a song cycle, with composer Sandra France. [16]

For the Sydney Festival 2021, Valentine wrote and directed the series Walkeys Live: The Journalist Gene, "a series of eight one-hour biographical portraits of eight Walkley Award-winning or recognised journalists". [16] They were held at Sydney Town Hall. [17]

In 2022 Valentine was commissioned by Neil Armfield to co-write the libretto with Christos Tsiolkas for a modern oratorio about the 1972 murder of George Duncan in Adelaide. With music composed by Joseph Twist, it was performed as Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan to critical acclaim at the 2022 Adelaide Festival. [18] [19] [20]

Recognition and awards

Selected works

Plays

Films

Books

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship, managed by the Charles Perkins Centre, is awarded annually to a distinguished Australian writer who proposes a new major work that explores themes of relevance to the mission of the centre. [33]

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