NSW Write Night: Alana Valentine in Conversation with Noëlle Janaczewska

NSW writers, and playwrights in particular, will not want to miss this very special Write Night. Two internationally acclaimed playwrights, Alana Valentine and Noëlle Janaczewska, discuss documentary theatre and the creative process. How do we best transform real experience into drama? How do we place nonfictionon stage?  

Alana’s new book Bowerbird – a journey through her life and plays – will serve as a jumping off point for their exploration. 

 Bowerbird shows the power of bringing new audiences to the theatre to share the space with traditional audiences and details how to gather and transform lived experience into compelling drama. 

‘This is much more than a guide for aspiring writers: this is a book for anyone who loves theatre, its power and its people.’  Neil Armfield AO

When: Tuesday 11 September 2018, 6.30pm for 7pm 
Where: Knox St Bar, 21 Shepherd St, Chippendale Sydney.  
Cost: $10 members/$15 non-members 

Alana Valentine is an internationally renowned playwright with a long list of plays to her name. 

Just some of her awards include the BBC International Radio Competition and the STAGE International Playwriting Award,multiple AWGIE awards including the Inaugural David Williamson Award for Excellence in Writing for the Australian Theatre, a Qld Premier's Award for Best Drama Script, a NSW Writer's Fellowship, the Rodney Seaborn Playwright's Award and an International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Noëlle Janaczewskais a playwright, poet, essayist, and author. Two of her scripts Good With Maps and Teacup in a Stormare also due out in September. 

Noëlle’s work has been produced, broadcast and published locally and internationally.She has won a Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University for her work as a dramatist. In Australia her plays and audio scriptshave won a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the Playbox-Asialink Playwriting Competition, the Griffin Award and eight AWGIE awards.