Alana Valentine was awarded the Best Musical Helpmann Award (2019) for Barbara and the Camp Dogs, co-written with Ursula Yovich, it won both Green Room and Helpmann Awards for Best Original Score. In March 2022 the oratorio WATERSHED: The Death of Dr Duncan, co-written with Christos Tsiolkas, was at the Adelaide Festival 2022 and is part of the Opera Australia season 2024. Alana won the AWGIE award for best musical script for Notre Dame, which she will direct in 2024 for Brandenburg Orchestra. Her other acclaimed works as a librettist are Flight Memory, Bennelong, Wudjang: Not the Past, co-written with Stephen Page and Baleen Moondjan, also with Stephen Page for the 2024 Adelaide Festival. www.alanavalentine.com