Alana Valentine

Alana Valentine’s work for theatre engages with the authentic real-life stories and voices of Australian communities.

In 2012 Walk a Mile in My Shoes was a sold out sensation at the 2012 Sydney Festival and moves on to the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival in March. Grounded, commissioned by atyp/Tantrum theatre will be produced in May, 2012, based on interviews and workshops with Newcastle young adults and other community members about their experience of living in an Australian regional city and their memories of the grounding of the Panamax bulk carrier the Pasha Bulker on Nobby’s Beach in 2007.

Head Full of Love will be presented at the Queensland Theatre Company in July, 2012. Based at the Alice Springs Beanie Festival, the play draws on interviews and involvement with the Pitjantjatjara women of the Central Desert mob, the Beanie Festival community, kidney dialysis workers, nurses and others based in Alice Springs. It was first presented at the Darwin Festival in 2010 then toured to Cairns and Alice.

In 2011, Alana premiered three new plays. MP, at the Street Theatre in Canberra, based on interviews with Australian women politicians, their assistants, press gallery journalists and public servants working in the Australian democracy. Student Body was presented at Melbourne University, based on interviews with International students living and studying in Australia and Cyberbile about cyberbullying at PLC Croydon in Sydney.

Her plays Parramatta Girls and Run Rabbit Run have been on the NSW HSC syllabus since 2010.