JAYE KRANZ is an award-winning documentary audio producer, poet, musician, and writer based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. 

Her commissioned audio features have aired on BBC Radio 4 (Short Cuts and Lights Out), BBC Radio 3 (Between The Essays), on numerous flagship documentary shows nationally across Australia’s ABC RN grid, on NPR, WBEZ, Re-Sound, Constellations podcast and the Third Coast Audio Festival ‘Special Feature’ podcast.

Her BBC feature ‘Deep Time and the Sparrowhawk’ won two gold awards at the 2019 New York Radio Festival Awards in the ‘Best Sound’ and ‘Best Documentary’ categories.

A recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Australia Council’s for the Arts (now Creative Australia) and the Queen’s Trust Fund (for Writing), Jaye has published short stories and a novella (Vintage), writes occasional nonfiction for The Monthly, and was a screenwriter for US film production company Plan B Entertainment. She has poems forthcoming in West Branch. and is longlisted for the Tom Colins Poetry Prize.

Jaye has presented at the International Audiocraft Festival & Conference; has mentored in audio storytelling; was a mentor-producer for the podcast Braided, and has hosted and produced various nonfiction writers' festival events, including the twice-sellout Melbourne Writers Festival nonfiction storytelling event The Radio Hour. Jaye’s audio pieces have been taught in schools and universities, and played at listening events and podcast festivals around the world.

Under the moniker Brighter Later, Jaye wrote and self-produced the full-length album The Wolves (and follow-up single Brace), earning her a nomination for the prestigious Australian Music Prize. She was also nominated for Best Emerging Artist at The Age/Music Victoria Awards. As front-woman for the Melbourne outfit, she has supported the likes of Martha Wainwright and Calexico (USA) and played venues including the Sydney Opera House and Brisbane’s Tivoli Theatre.

Jaye has made commissioned work for the Melbourne Arts Centre, the State Library of Victoria. and the audio-ephemera podcast Constellations (a project that made IndieWire’s Top 50 Podcasts of 2020).

She has been guest speaker at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), a member of the New York Radio Festival Grand Jury, and a judge of the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship.