JOY Interview Highlights

8 Apr 2015

Centre Stage Competition, Win $500!

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Four winning scripts – $500 per winner

Centre Stage is a nationwide short-play competition focusing on any lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) issues. Your radio play can focus on a specific group of the LGBTIQ community or our rainbow community in general. It can be funny, touching, a true story, fiction or completely out there!

Remember: it’s for radio, so think audio not visual.

Ten finalists will be recorded as read-throughs and then voted for online by our 329,000 listeners. Supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the four winning plays will be recorded and filmed over a creative weekend. The process will be recorded as a ‘How to Produce a Radio Play’ instructional video for other community broadcasters across the community radio network, and the plays will be aired online and on air.

Contributors must submit a 15-minute (or less) radio script to JOY 94.9 focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex or queer issues. It can be any genre of play as long as it has an LGBTIQ thread throughout and is 15 minutes or less in duration. Plays must be original works that have never been performed before or used elsewhere.

9 February 2015: submissions open
1 May 2015: deadline for submissions
8 May 2015: 10 finalists chosen and read-throughs recorded.
15 May 2015: public voting opens.
15 June 2015: winners announced; Interviews with winners on air.
20-21 June 2015: workshop/recording/filming weekend for winning plays.
6 July 2015: 4 winning plays aired on JOY and made available online as podcasts and for the CRN; ‘how to’ workshop film made available as a free training video for other community broadcasters to use.