Centre Stage is a nationwide short-play competition focusing on any and all LGBTIQ issues – that’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex and queer.
Your radio play can focus on a specific group of the LGBTIQ community or the rainbow community in general. It can be funny, touching, a true story, fiction or completely out there.
Ten finalists will be recorded as read-throughs and then voted for online by JOY 94.9’s 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.
Plus the 4 finalists will each receive a cash prize of $500!
Contributors must submit a 15-minute (or less) radio script to JOY 94.9 focusing on LGBTIQ 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.
- 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 Community Radio Network; a ‘how to’ workshop film made available as a free training video for other community broadcasters to use.
