The VDL sponsors a $50 youth encouragement award, called the Theatrecraft Youth Unlimited Award, to eligible One Act Play festivals.
The TYU Award: conditions and eligibility for OAP festivals
- The festival organising body must be a theatre company that is a financial member of the VDL
- The festival program must include actors 21 years and under
- Festival organisers need to contact the VDL Office 3 weeks prior to the festival to register their request for an award
- The festival organiser is to include information about the VDL (to be supplied) in the printed program for the festival
- The winner to be decided by the festival adjudicator
- The certificate to be presented where possible by a member of the VDL Committee of Management
- The winner to contact the VDL Office to claim their prize money