The award ceremony of the ATD Fund student prizes will take place on Monday 29 September 2025 at 17:30 in the hall of the Academy of Theatre and Dance: Top Naeff Prize, the André Veltkamp Grant and the Henny Kamerman Dancers Prize.

It will be an enjoyable evening with performances, speeches and conversations with (former) winners.
The presenter of the evening will be alumnus Teun Donders (Top Naeff Prize winner in 2020). Alumni and previous prize winners Sia Cyrroes (winner of the Top Naeff Prize in 2022), Liliane Brakema (the very first winner of the André Veltkamp Grant in 2015) and Chun Shing Au (winner of the André Veltkamp Grant in 2024) will be making a special guest appearance. Pauline Haenen and Nilas Rigter will give a special performance. They will be accompanied on piano by Abigail Richards.

We can already reveal who will win the André Veltkamp Grant 2025 and the Henny Kamerman Dancer Award 2025! We're keeping it a secret for now who will receive the Top Naeff Prize 2025...

• The André Veltkamp Grant 2025 goes to Billy Morgan, a graduate of SNDO Choreography, for the performance The Hunt.
• The Henny Kamerman Dancers Prize 2025 goes to Nilah Dönszelmann (Dance in Education)

Are you curious to know which of our alumni are among the laureates? Then come to the hall of the Academy for Theatre and Dance, Jodenbreestraat 3 in Amsterdam on 30 September and be surprised! You are welcome from 17:30. Afterwards, there will be drinks.

Go to the website of the ATD Fund for more information about the previous award winners and about the fund.

Portrait photo: left: Billy Morgan, right: Nilah Dönszelmann (photo: Sjoerd Derine)
Scene photo Billy Morgan ‘The Hunt’ (photographer: Gergely Ofner)