Playwright Alana Valentine Wins STAGE International Script Competition

Australian playwright Alana Valentine has been named the winner of the STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology for her work, Ear to the Edge of Time. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Dublin and comes with a $10,000 prize.

The play was selected by a judging panel that included Pulitzer Prize-winners Tony Kushner, David Lindsay-Abaire, and Donald Margulies; Nobel Laureates Robert C. Richardson and Frank Wilczek; and National Medal of Science and the Franklin Medal winner Dr. David J. Wineland.

In Ear to the Edge of Time, a radio astronomer faces a crises over gender politics, attribution, and team work in 21st century science. In the past, Valentine has been awarded the 2004 Queensland Premier’s Award for Best Drama Script, the 2003 New South Wales Writer’s Fellowship, the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights’ Award, and an International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, among others.

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