Alana Valentine

Multi-award winning Writer (Parramatta Girls, Run Rabbit Run) (Sydney)

Alana Valentine's writing has been nominated for a NSW Premier's Literary Award and a prestigious three Helpmann Awards, including best New Australian Work and Best Play, for Parramatta Girls.

She is the recipient of the 2004 QLD Premier’s Award for best Drama Script, 2003 NSW Writer’s Fellowship, the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights’ Award, and a International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. She has also received a Victorian Green Room Award nomination, a 2001 commendation for the Louis Esson Prize, a 1999 AWGIE Award, a residency at the Banff Playwrights’ Conference in Canada, the ANPC/New Dramatists Award in NYC, a Churchill Fellowship for England and Ireland and a NSW Premier’s Award.  Her stage plays include Eyes to the Floor (Outback Theatre for Young People), Parramatta Girls (Company B, Belvoir St Theatre), Singing the Lonely Heart (New Theatre), Love Potions (New Theatre), Butterfly Dandy  (Women on a Shoestring),  Covenant (Powerhouse Youth Theatre), The Prospectors (Monkeybaa/STC, ANMM), Run Rabbit Run (Company B, Belvoir St Theatre), Titania’s Boy (Riverina Theatre Company, Wagga Wagga and Griffith), Savage Grace (Steamworks/La Mama, Performing Lines, Subiaco Arts Centre, Blue Room, Religion, Literature and Arts Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre) Row of Tents (New York Fringe Festival 2001), The Conjurers (Playbox, La Boite), Ozone (Brisbane Festival), Spool Time (Vitalstatistix) and Swimming the Globe (Freewheels, Northern NSW Tour, Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival, Malaysia).  

Alana has written numerous award winning radio plays as well as episodes of the television series McLeod’s Daughters. Her short films include Mother Love (for SBS Television) and Reef Dreaming (for installation on a waterscreen in Darling Harbour). In 2001 Alana was the recipient of a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies (with Merit) from the University of Sydney and has created Museum Theatre works for the Australian National Maritime Museum, the Australian War Memorial, and Sydney Observatory.