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 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 musicalBarbara 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]
2020: Winner, two Green Room Awards, for Music Composition and Sound Design, and Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage, for Barbara and the Camp Dogs[36][37]
2021: Co-recipient of the UTS Chancellor's Award for excellence, in recognition of her accomplished work and the consistent excellence of her dramatic output[2][1]
2021: Winner, UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award[1]
Swimming The Globe (1996). A play about the parallel paths of two teen-age swimmers from different parts of the world who both strive to compete in the Olympics. It was first performed at the Mission Theatre in Newcastle, NSW, on 21 August 1996. It was commissioned by Freewheels Theatre Company, with the two girls played by Louise Chapman as Igorina and Kathryn Hume as Stace.[40][41] It was also published as a performing arts book in 1999 by Currency Press.[42]
Parramatta girls (2007) about the Girls Training School, Parramatta. Produced at the Belvoir St Theatre. The play is on the HSC Drama syllabus in New South Wales.[2] It is written as "a dramatisation of interviews with a number of women who served time in Australia’s most notorious girls detention centre".[44]
Singing the lonely heart' is a one-act play is loosely based on the life of Carson McCullers. It was published together with Ozone in 2008.[45]
Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah: Soft Revolution (2010)[46] The play, performed at the Seymour Centre Sydney, 6–29 August 2009, is about "how Islamic women think and feel about" wearing the hijab.[47] It was "commissioned by The Alex Buzo Company to 'respond' to Alex Buzo's play Norm and Ahmed"[48][49][50]
Bowerbird: The Arts of Making Theatre Drawn from Life[54]
Footnotes
^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]
References
^ abc"Alana Valentine". University of Technology Sydney. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
^"Alana Valentine". Churchill Trust. 22 October 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
^"Australian National Playwrights' Centre New Dramatists Exchange". AustLit. Retrieved 6 September 2024. This annual award is arranged by the Australian National Playwrights' Centre (ANPC), supported by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. In an exchange program with New Dramatists in New York, an Australian playwright is chosen to work for three weeks at the home of New Dramatists, and a New Dramatists' playwright is included in the workshop program at the ANPC Conference in Australia.
