Alana Valentine, Playwright
Interview with Alana Valentine, at her home in Redfern, Sydney, December 2009.
Suggested Readings:
Run Rabbit Run
by Alana Valentine.
Parramatta Girls
by Alana Valentine.
Suggested Links:
Alana’s 2009 ALEX BUZO MEMORIAL LECTURE:
Captured by Reality
Alana Valentine is an Australian playwright. She has been nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, awarded the 2004 Queensland Premier's Award for Best Drama Script, the 2003 NSW Writer's Fellowship, the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwright's Award and an International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. She also received 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 and A Churchill Fellowship, the NSW Premier's Award and a Centenary Medal. Alana is well known for her excellent use of research within the community she is writing about. This is evident in her popular 2004 play
Run Rabbit Run about South Sydney League's Club's fight for survival and 2007's sell-out season of
Parramatta Girls at Belvoir Street Theatre about the infamous Girls Training School, Parramatta.
AUDIO
1. Verbatim Definition (1.59) – Alana gives a definition of verbatim theatre