Podcast appearances and mentions of alana valentine

The Aside Podcasts are a free resource supported by Drama Victoria - Australia's oldest Drama Association In this episode of The Aside, we talk with Alana Valentine — playwright, director, and librettist known for turning real-life stories into powerful theatre. Sections of her 2008 play Watermark appear on the 2025 VCE Theatre Studies monologue list. We discuss the play, it's development and we dive into design possibilities as well. Her book Bowerbird also includes insights into the development of Watermark and can be purchased here: https://www.currency.com.au/books/auto-biography/bowerbird-the-art-of-making-theatre-drawn-from-life/

Recorded at the Currency Press Festival of Playwrights 2023   Playwrights Alana Valentine and JoJo Zhou have a conversation about their careers and writing practice.   ***   https://www.currency.com.au/authors/jojo-zhou/ https://www.currency.com.au/authors/alana-valentine/

Alana joins Regina Botros to talk about her new work for the stage Nucleus at the Seymour Centre as part of the Griffin season. Alana Valentine is a librettist, playwright and director. Photo (c) Brett Boardman Gabriel is a nuclear engineer. Cassie is an anti-nuclear campaigner. For nearly thirty years their lives have collided and entwined, with Cassie's cause dominating public opinion across the decades. But with political change rumbling underfoot, Cassie's life's work could yet be undone—and it's all led to this explosive night.

As a teenager in Belgium, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui  grew up dancing with his friends in the street. He's now a renowned choreographer with his own company and the director of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, choreographing everything from pop music videos to the new show MANIFEST at Perth Festival - where members of the public can train alongside his dancers for a performance in the city's Forrest Place.Can love exist between two people on opposite sides of the nuclear debate? In her new play Nucleus, Alana Valentine pits two passionately engaged scientists against each other, basing their arguments on real life interviews, but adding a nuclear force of attraction into the mix. We're also joined by Peter Kowitz playing Dr Gabriel Hulst. from the funny and vernacular Palawa/Pakana playwright, Nathan Maynard. In the era of AFL footballer Adam Goodes' famous war cry, two Aboriginal footy players in a regional club confront the personal cost of either staying quiet or speaking out about racism. We're joined by the show's star, Ngali Shaw (Wiradjuri, Murawari, Kunja) and director, and co-choreographer of the show's breathtaking football sequences, Isaac Drandic (Noongar). First broadcast March 2024

Andrea James, a Yorta Yorta, Gunaikurnai theatre maker and Griffin Theatre Company's Associate Artistic Director joins NITV Radio to talk about her latest project, Nucleus, written by celebrated playwright Alana Valentine.

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S. Shakthidharan's award-winning epic, Counting and Cracking, won seven Helpmann Awards and drew a huge audience to a story that many of them knew little about. Five years after its world premiere, Counting and Cracking is on in Melbourne as part of the RISING festival, after which it transfers to Sydney's Carriageworks and then New York.In 1972, a lecturer at the University of Adelaide was attacked at a gay beat and drowned. 50 years on, an oratorio shone a light into this appalling story and how his death changed Australia. Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan is now being restaged by Opera Australia.

Cam and Ali's bathroom is looking especially spick and span today as they sit down with Alana Valentine, one of Australia's most critically acclaimed playwrights and author of Wed by the Wayside.  Alana shares the stories of couples wed at the iconic Wayside Chapel, a controversial beacon of social justice and inclusivity in Australian history. From interracial and interfaith marriages to same-sex unions, divorcees, sex workers and bikies, Wayside welcomed all love at a time when many of these couples were turned away elsewhere.  LINKS  Purchase Wed by the Wayside here Visit alanavalentine.com to check out more of Alana's work Follow Cam @camerondaddo on Instagram Follow Ali @alidaddo on Instagram Follow Nova Podcasts @novapodcastsofficial.  If you heard BetterHelp on the show today, you can get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com.au/Daddo Got a question for Cam & Ali? You can email them at separatebathrooms@novapodcasts.com.au. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1931, Sydney. West-Indian Australian singer Nellie Small puts on a sleek top hat and tails at a little Oxford Street venue, and a legend of Australian vaudeville and cabaret is born. Send For Nellie is a thrilling new Cabaret Show that unearths the great untold story of Singer, Nellie Small. Written by Helpmann Award-winning playwright  Alana Valentine  Send For Nellie celebrates a ground-breaking, non-conformist path. LOTL speaks to Alana about Nellie's life, her success and her battles. To read more go to http://tinyurl.com/2d9xnzvnSupport the showCheck out more content on www.lotl.com

Nellie Small was a mainstay of the Tivoli circuit in Australia from the 1920s until her final performance in 1964. There was a catchcry on the variety circuit: if your show was falling flat, send for Nellie. Largely absent from our performing arts history books, Send for Nellie at the Sydney Festival thrusts Nellie Small back into the spotlight.Also, a new Australian production of Death of a Salesman has enticed Anthony LaPaglia back to the stage for the first time in over a decade, and we learn how, after being a flop in its native Russia, Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker became a permanent fixture of the Christmas season at ballet companies everywhere.

Playwright and dramatist Alana Valentine shares her approach to telling the stories of individuals and communities across her works including Parramatta Girls, Letters to Lindy and My Beautiful Man, and for the State Library of NSW exhibition Send for Nellie.

Playwright and dramatist Alana Valentine shares her approach to telling the stories of individuals and communities across her works including Parramatta Girls, Letters to Lindy and My Beautiful Man, and for the State Library of NSW exhibition Send for Nellie.

With episodes surpassing 300 in the STAGES archive, it's time to revisit conversations featured in our previous seasons. STAGES spotlights such episodes, in case you missed them the first time ‘round - or so you can simply savour, a second listen. Either way, you'll accessing precious oral histories from the people who were there, on and around our stages. Maggie Blinco is an octogenerian, and carries with her a life-time of experiences that fuel each character she plays. As an actor, she claims to be in a category ‘all of her own' as far as roles go, especially when there doesn't seem to be many roles for actors in her age bracket. She didn't come to acting until late. Having done theatre at university, it wasn't until her late 30s that she turned professional. Since our conversation, she has delivered a celebrated turn in the play John for Outhouse Theatre Company and in 2021 she was acknowledged by the Sydney Theatre awards for her lifetime achievement as an actor. Through April/May this year, Maggie performed with the Belvoir Theatre in their production of Alana Valentine's Wayside Bride. She was as vivacious and engaging as ever - not bad for 88!! So how has she managed longevity in what can be a pretty tough industry? She reveals all in this wonderful reflection. What a delight to revisit Maggie Blinco. The Stages podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify, and where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

My guest is Alana Valentine. Alana Valentine is a multi-award winning playwright Librettist and screen writer. Her works include:-  The Sugar house, Ladies Day, Paramatta Girls, Letters to Lindy, Barbara and the Camp Dogs with Ursula Yovich which is being adapted to the screen and won both a 2019 Helpmann Award and 2020 Green Room Award for Best Original Score, as well as a Helpmann for Best Musical and Green Room for Best New Australian Work. Also Alana is a long time dramaturg with Bangarra Dance Theatre and most recently worked on Wudjang Not the Past for Sydney Festival . She has recently worked on Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan, writing the libretto with Christos Tsiolkas and was directed  by Neil Armfield for Adelaide Festival. She has more than 20 published works including two books of non-fiction including BOWERBIRD: The art of making theatre drawn from life (2018). She has written for radio television and screen and is here to talk about ….Wayside Brides - Till the 29th May, 2022.

At this year's Australian Playwrights' Festival, writers gathered to interrogate some of the most challenging questions facing theatre-makers today. We hear two panels from the festival about the craft and responsibilities of writers telling other people's stories. Panellists: Tommy Murphy, Angela Betzien, S. Shakthidharan, Alana Valentine, Stephen Sewell, Vanessa Bates, Dylan Van Den Berg and Andrew Bovell.

At this year's Australian Playwrights' Festival, writers gathered to interrogate some of the most challenging questions facing theatre-makers today. We hear two panels from the festival about the craft and responsibilities of writers telling other people's stories.Panellists: Tommy Murphy, Angela Betzien, S. Shakthidharan, Alana Valentine, Stephen Sewell, Vanessa Bates, Dylan Van Den Berg and Andrew Bovell.

At this year's Australian Playwrights' Festival, writers gathered to interrogate some of the most challenging questions facing theatre-makers today. We hear two panels from the festival about the craft and responsibilities of writers telling other people's stories. Panellists: Tommy Murphy, Angela Betzien, S. Shakthidharan, Alana Valentine, Stephen Sewell, Vanessa Bates, Dylan Van Den Berg and Andrew Bovell.

Dan Giovannoni is a prolific writer of plays for young people and adults. His work as a playwright and as a teaching artist demonstrate his belief in how creativity can change the world. Dan has new plays at Barking Gecko and the Melbourne Theatre Company. Also, Maree Johnson, Broadway cast member of Phantom of the Opera now performing on Sydney Harbour, shares her Top Shelf and we explore the 'repertory theatre' model that has inspired Belvoir's rep season of plays by Caryl Churchill and Alana Valentine.

Dan Giovannoni is a prolific writer of plays for young people and adults. His work as a playwright and as a teaching artist demonstrate his belief in how creativity can change the world. Dan has new plays at Barking Gecko and the Melbourne Theatre Company. Also, Maree Johnson, Broadway cast member of Phantom of the Opera now performing on Sydney Harbour, shares her Top Shelf and we explore the 'repertory theatre' model that has inspired Belvoir's rep season of plays by Caryl Churchill and Alana Valentine.

Dan Giovannoni is a prolific writer of plays for young people and adults. His work as a playwright and as a teaching artist demonstrate his belief in how creativity can change the world. Dan has new plays at Barking Gecko and the Melbourne Theatre Company. Also, Maree Johnson, Broadway cast member of Phantom of the Opera now performing on Sydney Harbour, shares her Top Shelf and we explore the 'repertory theatre' model that has inspired Belvoir's rep season of plays by Caryl Churchill and Alana Valentine.

In 1972, a lecturer at the University of Adelaide was attacked at a gay beat, thrown into the River Torrens and drowned. 50 years on, Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan shines a light into this appalling story and how his death changed Australia. Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shares more insights into the power of voice and we attend the rehearsal of a reimagined version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland presented by the Australian Contemporary Opera Company.

In 1972, a lecturer at the University of Adelaide was attacked at a gay beat, thrown into the River Torrens and drowned. 50 years on, Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan shines a light into this appalling story and how his death changed Australia. Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shares more insights into the power of voice and we attend the rehearsal of a reimagined version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland presented by the Australian Contemporary Opera Company.

In 1972, a lecturer at the University of Adelaide was attacked at a gay beat, thrown into the River Torrens and drowned. 50 years on, Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan shines a light into this appalling story and how his death changed Australia.Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shares more insights into the power of voice and we attend the rehearsal of a reimagined version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland presented by the Australian Contemporary Opera Company.

Wudjang : Not the Past is Stephen Page's swan song after 30 years at the helm of Australia's First Nation company, Bangarra Dance Theatre. This production is their biggest yet; a contemporary corroboree of story, poetry, song, dance and music, told by twenty-six performers on stage. This is a new work and as the last in Stephen's long career as Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance, the pressure is on to create his crowning achievement in a short eight weeks where it will premier at Sydney Festival, a huge cultural event that takes place across Sydney in January. The work lives close to Stephen's experience of family, drawing on his father's lost language of Mibinyah from Yugambeh Country and the songlines of his Aboriginal heritage. It's a work that addresses ancestors and new knowledge and connects the past with the present. It's a fusion of form that elevates and strengthens the continent's troubled culture and moves from the land and ritual to the stage. Join Regina Botros as she follows Stephen in his creative process from conception to completion. She'll also talk with the other creatives in this very collaborative production including; award winning co-writer Alana Valentine, composer Steve Francis, designer Jacob Nash and dancer Daniel Mateo. Wudjang: Not The Past is the first co-production between Bangarra Dance Theatre, until recently, Australia's only First Nations company and Sydney Theatre Company.

Elaine Crombie is a powerhouse of an actor and singer on stage and screen. Her new role sees her performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Wudjang: Not the Past — a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Festival. Also, we're joined by Bangarra's artistic director Stephen Page and his recently announced successor Frances Rings and we visit Australian artists from Circa currently navigating a tangled web of border closures and health measures on tour in Europe.

Elaine Crombie is a powerhouse of an actor and singer on stage and screen. Her new role sees her performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Wudjang: Not the Past — a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Festival.Also, we're joined by Bangarra's artistic director Stephen Page and his recently announced successor Frances Rings and we visit Australian artists from Circa currently navigating a tangled web of border closures and health measures on tour in Europe.

Elaine Crombie is a powerhouse of an actor and singer on stage and screen. Her new role sees her performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Wudjang: Not the Past — a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Festival. Also, we're joined by Bangarra's artistic director Stephen Page and his recently announced successor Frances Rings and we visit Australian artists from Circa currently navigating a tangled web of border closures and health measures on tour in Europe.

Actor and musical theatre star Mia Morrissey talks with Australian theatre, film & TV royalty Ursula Yovich about the complicated process of grief and how you can harness it in your writing process and performances. Mia Morrissey is a film, TV and theatre actor whose credits include Bat Eyes (by Killing Ground director Damien Power), In Your Dreams (Channel 7), The Voices Project: Out Of Place (ATYP), The Voice (Channel 7, picked by Ricky Martin), Molly (Channel 7), Harrow (ABC), Alice in Slasherland (The Old Fitz theatre), Home and Away (Channel 7), RENT (Sydney Opera House) and produced and performed in her cabaret Anything You Can Do which brought together female performers to play roles originally written for men. Mia also signed on as an associate producer of Chips and Gravy's Screen Australia funded musical comedy series, She Becomes Her and received funding from The Hayes Theatre to complete her original musical In Loving Memory. Ursula Yovich is a singer, song-writer, actor, playwright and story teller. She grew up in Australian's Northern Territory, in Darwin and Maningrida. As an actor Ursula has worked for all of Australia's leading theatre companies, her performances and writing have been recognised with numerous awards and nominations, most recently four Helpmann Awards 2019 and four Green Room Awards 2020 for the rock musical, Barbara and The Camp Dogs, which she co-wrote with Alana Valentine.

People visit lost property offices in hope of finding missing precious items, often overwhelmed with joy when these things miraculously show up. The Vault is the story of a woman chasing that feeling.

People visit lost property offices in hope of finding missing precious items, often overwhelmed with joy when these things miraculously show up. The Vault is the story of a woman chasing that feeling.

Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical theatre star — and two-time Disney Princess — Lea Salonga brings her concert tour to Australia, Alana Valentine and Sandra France have written Flight Memory — a song cycle inspired by the Australian inventor of the black box premiering at The Street in Canberra, and Australian theatre-maker Roshelle Fong, having recently staged her show nomnomnom in China, explains what it's like to take a show on the road.

Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical theatre star — and two-time Disney Princess — Lea Salonga brings her concert tour to Australia, Alana Valentine and Sandra France have written Flight Memory — a song cycle inspired by the Australian inventor of the black box premiering at The Street in Canberra, and Australian theatre-maker Roshelle Fong, having recently staged her show nomnomnom in China, explains what it's like to take a show on the road.

In this Helpmann Awards special, we revisit some of our favourite moments with this year's crop of nominees. S. Shakthidharan's massive play Counting and Cracking presents a Sri Lankan family's experiences in Australia and during the civil war, Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wild musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine, Australian Dance Theatre's Beginning of Nature moves to the rhythm of Kaurna, and Willy Wonka throws open the doors to his chocolate factory in a new stage musical.

In this Helpmann Awards special, we revisit some of our favourite moments with this year's crop of nominees. S. Shakthidharan's massive play Counting and Cracking presents a Sri Lankan family's experiences in Australia and during the civil war, Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wild musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine, Australian Dance Theatre's Beginning of Nature moves to the rhythm of Kaurna, and Willy Wonka throws open the doors to his chocolate factory in a new stage musical.

As part of Seymour's Centre's premiere season of 'Made to Measure' by Alana Valentine, this special Sydney Ideas event explores the role the arts has to play in investigating major public health issues. Following a performance of the play, writer Alana Valentine, University of Sydney's Professor Stephen Simpson and dressmaker Santina Porpiglia, had a discussion about art and science working together and its contributions in shifting perceptions. This podcast was recorded on Tuesday 21 May at the Seymour Centre: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/sydney-ideas/2019/made-to-measure.html

Theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky talks us through his brilliantly outlandish reimagining of Mozart's The Magic Flute, we learn about the integral, but sometimes unnoticed, work of sound designers with J. David Franzke, and Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wildly funny and unflinchingly honest musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine.

Recorded live at Knox St Bar on in Chippendale, Sydney on 11 September, 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 non-fiction on stage?    

A Sydney Ideas event for Innovation Week 2018, exploring the possibility that storytelling is exactly what science needs, with a view to answering the question: Is storytelling bad for science? Featuring Professor Nick Enfield, screen-writer John Collee, dramatist Alana Valentine, Professor Geraint Lewis and Professor Jennifer Byrne. A Sydney Ideas event for Innovation Week held at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 31 July 2018. https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/sydney-ideas/2018/is-storytelling-bad-for-science.html TIME STAMPS Introductions: 0:00 - 2:00 Professor Nick Enfield: 2:00 - 10:15 John Collee: 10:25 - 18:07 Professor Geraint Lewis: 18:14 - 26:18 Alana Valentine: 26:34 - 31:29 Professor Jennifer Byrne: 31:45 - 38:23 Discussion: 38:34 - 56:18 Audience Q&A: 56:51 - 1:22:50

In this special episode of highlights from the year so far, Monkey Baa adapts Jackie French's Josephine Wants to Dance for the stage, Jada Alberts' new production of Brothers Wreck comes to Adelaide, playwright Alana Valentine outlines how her experiences inspire her writing, and we drop into a reunion of the original Australian cast of Cats.

The arts community rallies around La Mama Theatre after a devastating fire, Peter Carey's 1981 novel Bliss adapted for the stage, playwright Alana Valentine outlines her creative process in Bowerbird, and Claudia Lawson reviews Sydney Dance Company's ab [intra].

Belvoir is bringing rock ‘n’ roll back to Surry Hills this December with the powerful new Australian work, Barbara and the Camp Dogs. The extraordinary Ursula Yovich plays Barbara, a gutsy front woman burnt out by the Sydney music scene. When the feisty Barbara heads back to country with her sister René, she is forced to face the past she's been running from her whole life. Step behind the scenes with co-writers Alana Valentine and Ursula Yovich, and actor Elaine Crombie as they discuss this powerful new work. Writers Ursula Yovich & Alana Valentine Director Leticia Cáceres Podcast produced for Belvoir by Zoe Ferguson  2 - 23 DECEMBER BOOK HERE

State of Play: Why do we need theatre in Australia? Angela Catterns interviews a panel of theatre professionals – including Fred Copperwaite, Lee Lewis, Chris Mead and Alana Valentine – about the state of Australian theatre, now. Produced by Angela Catterns Music by Charlie Chan Sound by Tony David Cray

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton speaks to Alana Valentine about the making of a stage play based on 20,000 letters sent to Lindy by the public since 1980. Hosted by Canberra Times Arts Editor Sally Pryor. The Merrigong Theatre Company production, Letters to Lindy, will be performed at Canberra Theatre Centre between 9 and 13 August. Visit the Canberra Theatre Centre website for bookings. Merrigong Theatre Company, in association with the Canberra Theatre Centre.

Alana Valentine—one of Australia’s most renowned and respected playwrights, whose work includes Parramatta Girls, Eyes to the Floor, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah, Grounded and Cyberbile—reads the preface to the double edition of Brumby Innes and Bid Me to Love, two plays written by another of Australia’s literary treasures, Katharine Susannah Prichard. The introduction was written by Prichard's son, Ric Throssell.A little bit about Katharine Susannah PrichardPrichard was born in Levuka, Fiji, where her father was editor of the Fiji Times. She matriculated from South Melbourne College and worked briefly as a governess. She later taught in Melbourne studying English literature at night.In 1908 she travelled to London, working as a freelance journalist for the Melbourne Herald and, on her return, as the social editor of the Herald's women's page. In 1912 she left for England again to pursue a career as a writer and published two novels, The Pioneers and Windlestraws. She met the Australian Victoria Cross winner, Captain Hugo Throssell while away and in 1919 she married him and moved to Western Australia. Already a committed Communist in 1920, she was a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. In 1922 her only son Ric Throssell was born. While she was on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1933 Hugo Throssell committed suicide.From the 1920s until her death she lived at Greenmount, Western Australia, earning her living as a writer of novels, short stories and plays. Her novels include Black Opal; Working Bullocks; The Wild Oats of Han; Coonardoo; Haxby's Circus; Intimate Strangers; and the goldfields trilogy The Roaring Nineties, Golden Miles and Winged Seeds. Prichard was a member of the Communist Party of Australia until her death, and her political concerns were reflected in most of her published work. Her novels were published throughout the world and translated into numerous languages. In 1951 she was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.A few words about Brumby Innes and Bid Me to LoveWritten in the 1920s, Brumby Innes confronts the turbulent relations between the sexes and the races in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is published with another Prichard play from the 1920s, Bid Me To Love which, by contrast, is set among the fashionable rich in the lush hills outside Perth.

Alana Valentine reads her response to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler. It’s called An Ever-Changing Idiom and features in the Currency Press series, Cue the Chorus, in which an assortment of respected Australian playwrights respond to the work of their peers. You can download all the responses in the series from our website - currencypress.com.auA little bit about Alana Valentine. She is one of Australia’s most renowned and respected writers. Valentine writes for the stage, screen, radio and multimedia projects, but is perhaps best known for her plays. She is well known for her rigorous use of research within the community she is writing about. Her work for the stage includes Run Rabbit Run, Parramatta Girls, Cyberbile, Ear to the Edge of Time and Comin’ Home Soon. She has received numerous awards, both in Australia and internationally.

At the heart of Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the relationship between an aunt, Sarrinah, and her niece, Shafana. Both devout Muslims, the younger woman wants to put on a headscarf, the older woman tries to dissuade her. For Sarrinah, the hijab represents a world from which she has escaped; for her niece, Shafana, it is a personal statement of renewed faith.--Alana Valentine is one of Australia’s most renowned and respected playwrights. Her work for the stage includes Grounded, Cyberbile, Run Rabbit Run, Parramatta Girls, Eyes to the Floor, Watermark, Swimming the Globe, The Conjurers, Comin’ Home Soon, Dead Man Brake, Singing the Lonely Heart and Savage Grace.Her writing has been awarded many times, including the Queensland and NSW Premier’s Awards, five AWGIE awards, including the inaugural David Williamson Prize and the Major AWGIE in 2013, the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, a residency at the Banff Playwrights Conference in Canada, the ANPC/New Dramatists Award, a Churchilll Fellowship, a Centenary Medal and an International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. In 2012 she won the prestigious STAGE Award—judged by Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights and Nobel Laureates—for her play Ear to the Edge of Time.