The final and prize-giving ceremony of the Interschool Radio Drama Competition was successfully held at the Hong Kong Baptist University on May 9, 2009. It was an afternoon full of fun, creativity and excitement: 16 teams participated in our final and they performed their radio drama LIVE in front of our judges and audience. They all did an excellent job, and our judges were very impressed with each team’s performance. Well done!

We hope that you all enjoyed the Interschool English Radio Drama Competition, and look forward to your active participation again next year. The followings are the results and photos taken.

Mrs. Alice van Kapel from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Mr. Raymond Li from the BBC World Service	Ms. Alison Konieczny and Ms. Feifei Feng from BBC Learning English
Ms. Elsa Tsang from Smart Education and Mr. William Yip from Theatre Noir with our winners	We are all winners!

Please click here to view more photos taken at the final and prize giving ceremony.

It is our pleasure to inform you that our judges have selected the finalists for the competition, and they have been invited to perform LIVE in front of our audience and panel of judges in the final and prize giving ceremony of the Interschool English Radio Drama Competition on May 9, 2009.

List of finalists:
Primary level:

S1 to S3 level:

S4 to S6 level:

We would like to thank all contestants for your drama performance and all of you who have voted for the teams. We received a total of 40,000+ votes in just 2 weeks!

We are also very proud to have the following judges to be on our panel in the final competition:
²  Dr. Peter Jordon, Head of Acting, Drama School, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
²  Mr. Simon Gillow, Coordinator, Local Teacher Development, British Council Hong Kong
²  Mr. William Yip, Founder & Artistic Director, Theatre Noir
²  Ms. Alice van Kapel, General Manager, EXCEL, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
²  Mr. Raymond Li, Head of Business Development, China & North Asia, BBC World Service
²  Ms. Alison Konieczny, Editor, BBC Learning English, China Team
²  Ms. Feifei Feng, Coordinator, BBC Learning English, China Team

Thank you again for your support, and look forward to a very successful final competition.

Thank you again for your support in our Interschool English Radio Drama Competition. We have just uploaded the radio drama audio files and scripts from the short-listed teams onto our website, and it’s time for you to vote!

You can vote for your favourite radio drama for each level. Listen to the radio drama performances from the short-listed teams, and vote! Each person can cast one vote per day for each level. You can vote from now till April 13 2009. The team from each level with the most number of votes will win the “Most Popular Performance” award.

The Most Popular Radio Drama Performance Award will be announced on May 9 2009 at our final competition and prize giving ceremony. Winners will be invited to the ceremony to receive their trophies.

Cast your vote NOW!

• About the competition:
  The Interschool English Radio Drama Competition is co-organized by Smart Education Co Ltd and Theatre Noir.
  
• This competition is also being supported by Oxford University Press, BBC China, Step-One Books, Fortune Pharmacal, Hong Kong High Technology Ltd and Workers' Children Secondary School. The final and prize-giving ceremony of the competition will be held on May 9 2009 at the Recital Hall, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Thank you for your support in our English Radio Drama Competition. We are overwhelmed with the schools' active participation in this competition: over 340 teams from 80+ schools submitted their drama scripts in the first round of the competition!

Our judges have selected the following teams to enter Phase 2 of our competition. These short-listed teams are also invited to participate in our workshops on script writing and voice training on February 28 2009 (Saturday) at Workers Children Secondary School. Invitation letters have been sent to these teams.

Reminder: Short-listed teams must submit the 5-minute radio drama (in MP3 format) with the script to us BEFORE March 25 2009. Files can be sent to us via email to Drama@MySmartABC.com.

The following teams have been selected by our judges to enter Phase 2 of our competition: