

Stephen has also directed Ash Flanders’ End Of. Recent Credits include: Loaded (Malthouse Theatre), Considerable Sexual License (Joel Bray Dance), Merciless Gods (Arts Centre Melbourne, Griffin Theatre Company), and Abigail’s Party (Melbourne Theatre Company). Stephen is a Melbourne based theatre maker, director and co-founder of queer theatre company, Little Ones Theatre. Also, it’s wonderful to have Stephen Nicolazzo directing for the Belvoir stage – he’ll bring a very Alibrandi flair. It has a bit of everything – teen romance, coming-of-age, tragi-comedy in a very Australian vein. W e’re really excited to see how this classic of first and second generation Italian migration plays now. And this is the year she uncovers the truth – and finds the Alibrandi she has been searching for. It’s time to take her place in the real world, beyond her family, beyond being an Alibrandi.īut this is the year Josie gets to know her father.


If only she can get past the world of her Nonna, holding on to the values of the old country and the world of her Mum, full of care and secrets. It’s the last year of school, and 17-year- old Josephine Alibrandi can’t wait for her future to begin. A much-loved modern classic novel, a ground-breaking film, and now at Belvoir, a simply great night out. Book Two in the Lumatere Chronicles, Froi of the Exiles, was published in 2011, and Book Three, Quintana of Charyn, was published in 2012.The beloved novel of migration, growing up, and Sydney – now a play! Melina is also the author of The Gorgon in the Gully, which takes up the story of On the Jellicoe Road's Jonah Griggs's family, and stars his younger brother Danny in this story for younger readers. Finnikin of the Rock, Book One of the Lumatere Chronicles,was first published in Australia in 2008, followed in 2010 by the companion novel to her award-winning book Saving Francesca, The Piper's Son, long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and short-listed for many other literary awards in Australia and internationally. Melina has written for ABC-TV's Dance Academy. Printz Award from the American Library Association for On the Jellicoe Road, and Melina's screenplay for this book is currently set to be made into a major film with an international cast to be directed by Looking for Alibrandi director Kate Woods. In 2009 Marchetta won the prestigious Michael L. Melina Marchetta is one of Australia's most successful writers of young-adult fiction and is a best-selling and critically acclaimed author in more than twenty countries and in eighteen languages.
