Alfred Fagon Award

Alfred Fagon Award
Awarded forBest new play by a Black British playwright of Caribbean or African descent resident in the United Kingdom
Rewards£6,000 (Best New Play)
£3,000 (Roland Rees Bursary)
£3,000 (Mustapha Matura Award)
Established1996
First award1997
Currently held byHarry Mould, for The Brenda Line
Websitealfredfagonaward.co.uk

The Alfred Fagon Award is an annual prize for the best new play by a Black British playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the United Kingdom.[1][2] It was instituted in 1996 and first awarded in 1997, named in honour of the poet and playwright Alfred Fagon. The award is given with the support of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and carries a prize of £6,000.[1] It is widely regarded as the leading award for Black British playwrights.[3]

Background

The Alfred Fagon Award was established to commemorate the life and work of Alfred Fagon (1937–1986), a Jamaican-born playwright, poet and actor who was one of the most significant Black British playwrights of the 1970s and 1980s. Fagon died of a heart attack in August 1986 at the age of 49. Following his death, his friends organised a memorial evening at the Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln Theatre) in London, where donations collected during the evening formed the basis of a fund to support Black British playwrights.[4]

The award was co-founded by Yvonne Brewster OBE, Roland Rees, Oscar James, Sheelagh Killeen Rees, Paul Stephenson OBE, and Mustapha Matura.[5] Brewster, who co-founded Talawa Theatre Company in 1986, had been a close friend of Fagon's. Matura, the Trinidadian-born playwright in whose 1970 play Black Pieces Fagon had made his first professional stage appearance, had also encouraged Fagon to begin writing plays. The first award was presented to Roy Williams in 1997, supported by Arts Council England and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.[4]

The award was initially open to Black British playwrights of Caribbean descent. In 2006, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, its scope was broadened to include playwrights of African descent. The tenth anniversary ceremony was held at the Royal Court Theatre, where Lorna French received the prize for her play Safe House, presented by Diane Abbott MP.[4]

The award is a registered charity. The prize for the winning playwright is £6,000, awarded annually from an open call for submissions. The play does not need to have been professionally produced to be eligible.[6]

For many years the award received administrative support from Talawa Theatre Company, and later from Tiata Fahodzi. Since 2014, administration and creative production has been provided by Pauline Walker of PDW Productions. Award ceremonies have been held at the Royal Court Theatre (1997–2007), the National Theatre (2008–2012; 2014–2015), the Tricycle Theatre (2013, now known as the Kiln Theatre), the Royal Court Theatre (2017), and the Dorfman Theatre at the National Theatre (2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025). The 2020 ceremony was held digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[4][7]

Two of the award's co-founders died in the 2020s. Paul Stephenson OBE passed away on 2 November 2024; Roy Williams OBE paid tribute to him at the 2024 ceremony.[8] Yvonne Brewster OBE passed away in October 2025; tributes were paid to her at the 2025 ceremony by playwright Pat Cumper, Talawa Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Buffong, and Trustee Olusola Oyeleye.[9]

Other awards

Roland Rees Bursary

The Roland Rees Bursary was inaugurated in 2015 in memory of Roland Rees, a co-founder and the first chair of the Alfred Fagon Award (1997–2009), who died in September 2015. Rees was a theatre director who co-founded Foco Novo, one of the earliest innovative touring fringe theatre companies in the UK, and had directed three of Alfred Fagon's plays during his lifetime. The bursary is funded by a legacy from the Roland Rees estate and awards £3,000 annually to a playwright to enable them to devote more time to their writing. It is awarded by the trustees rather than through open submission.[10]

Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme

The Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme was inaugurated in 2021 as part of the award's 25th anniversary celebrations, in memory of Mustapha Matura (1939–2019), the Trinidadian-born playwright who was a co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award. Matura died in October 2019. The award is open to newly emerging Black playwrights of Caribbean or African descent aged 25 and under, and comprises a £3,000 cash prize and a nine-month mentoring programme with a leading Black British playwright. It is supported by the Estate of Mustapha Matura, the Garrick Charitable Trust, and The Henry and Mary Kent Trust.[11]

The three awards — the Mustapha Matura Award, the Roland Rees Bursary, and the Alfred Fagon Award — are named in honour of three figures who were contemporaries, friends, and supporters of each other's work: Matura encouraged Fagon to write, Rees directed both Matura's and Fagon's early plays, and together they helped establish the award that bears Fagon's name.[12]

Audience Award

An Audience Award, voted for by the public, ran for three years from 2015 to 2017.[4]

Winners

The winner of Best New Play of the Year is indicated in bold and highlighted in   gold. Shortlisted entries are highlighted in   light blue. Longlisted entries are unhighlighted. Shortlists and longlists are available from 2015 onwards; earlier years list the winner only.

YearPlaywrightPlayResult
1997[1][2][13]Roy WilliamsStarstruckWinner
1998[14]Shenagh CameronA Pocket in the SkyWinner
1999[15]Sheila WhiteMaidsWinner
Grant Buchanan-MarshallThe PrayerWinner
2000[16]Adeshegun IkoliSurprise SurpriseWinner
2001[17]Linda BroganThe WellWinner
Penny SaundersNever NeverWinner
2002[18]Trevor WilliamsTalkin' LoudWinner
2003[19]Marcia LayneOff CameraWinner
2004[20]Michael AbbensettsThe Good Doctor's SonWinner
2005[21]Michael BhimDaydreams of HaileyWinner
2006[22]Lorna FrenchSafe HouseWinner
2007[23]Allia V OswaldDirty WaterWinner
2008[24]Paula B. StanicWhat's LostWinner
2009[25]Oladipo AgboluajeIya-IleWinner
2010[1][2]Roy WilliamsSucker PunchWinner
Rachel De-lahaySW11Winner
2011[26]Levi David AddaiBlacklandsWinner
2012[27]Michaela CoelChewing Gum DreamsWinner
2013[27]Diana Nneka AtuonaLiberian GirlWinner
2014[28]Charlene JamesCuttin' ItWinner
2015[29]Theresa IkokoGirlsWinner
David JudgeSkipping RopeShortlisted
Deidan WilliamsManhattan Out to SeaShortlisted
Eva EdoLooked After ChildrenShortlisted
Tolula DadaCarrot or StickShortlisted
Andrew RajanAfghanistanLonglisted
Beverley AndrewsCirclesLonglisted
Chantal CampbellPlaying TomLonglisted
Dianna HuntMona's RoomLonglisted
Edson BurtonIcarus in LoveLonglisted
Matilda IbiniElector8Longlisted
Max KolaruNot CricketLonglisted
May SumbwanyambeAfter IndependenceLonglisted
Rayna CampbellManchester DividedLonglisted
Rex ObanoThe Moors of EnglandLonglisted
Roy WilliamsThe FearLonglisted
Simon Michael BrettWhite HouseLonglisted
Trevor WilliamsKilling TimeLonglisted
Yasmin JosephPinchLonglisted
2016[30]Lorna FrenchCity MelodiesWinner
Max KolaruTraffick JamShortlisted
Natasha MarshallHalf BreedShortlisted
Annette BrookGala MaeLonglisted
Beverly AndrewsAwa's JourneyLonglisted
Edd MuruakoMagneticLonglisted
Emma Dennis-EdwardsThe YardLonglisted
Kalungi SsebandekeASSATA: She Who StrugglesLonglisted
Liz MyttonRed SnapperLonglisted
Lola OlarewajuBastard ChildLonglisted
Michelle InnissShe Called Me MotherLonglisted
Mufaro MakubikaMiraclesLonglisted
Patrice EtienneMumLonglisted
Somalia SeatonFall of the Kingdom Rise of the Foot SoldierLonglisted
2017[31]Mufaro MakubikaShebeenWinner[32]
Archie MaddocksNine NightsShortlisted
David JudgeSparkPlugShortlisted
Inua EllamsBarber Shop ChroniclesShortlisted
Melanie PennantA Black Fella Walks into a BarShortlisted
Adura OnashileExpensive S***Longlisted
Gabriel GbadamosiStop & SearchLonglisted
Max Kolaru24 Grenfell Storey'sLonglisted
Tife KusoroWe Have SinnedLonglisted
2018[33]Winsome PinnockRockets and Blue LightsWinner
Chinonyerem OdimbaPrincess & The HustlerShortlisted
David JudgePanLidShortlisted
Dexter FlandersFoxesShortlisted
Tife KusoroButterflyShortlisted
Abraham AdeyemiThese Minging StreetsLonglisted
Ben TagoeWhen We Were BrothersLonglisted
Mahad AliMy Brother's KeeperLonglisted
Olivia HannahBraidsLonglisted
2019[34]Jasmine Lee-JonesSeven Methods of Killing Kylie JennerWinner
Carmen HarrisForeignShortlisted
Nick MakohaThe DarkShortlisted
Nicôle LeckySuperhoeShortlisted
Ryan Calais CameronRetrogradeShortlisted
Tonderai MunyevuComrades, Mugabe, My Dad and MeShortlisted
Archie MaddocksPan on the TyneLonglisted
Juliet Gilkes RomeroState of the UnionLonglisted
Nicole LatchanaOCO-2Longlisted
Patricia CumperRed DirtLonglisted
Roy Williams and Clint DyerDeath of EnglandLonglisted
Tolula DadaMarry or BurnLonglisted
Tyrell WilliamsRed PitchLonglisted
2020[35]Juliet Gilkes RomeroThe WhipWinner
babirye bukilwa...blackbird hourShortlisted
Clint Dyer and Roy WilliamsDeath of England: DelroyShortlisted
Daniel WardThe Canary & The CrowShortlisted
Emma Dennis-EdwardsBRICKSShortlisted
JC NialaUnsettledShortlisted
Chantelle DusetteEV(E)OLUTIONLonglisted
Esohe UwadiaeShe Is A Place Called HomeLonglisted
Inua EllamsThree SistersLonglisted
Lewis CharlesworthTokenLonglisted
Nicole LatchanaThe ProcessLonglisted
Phoebe McIntoshThe Soon LifeLonglisted
Ronke AdékoluẹjoTeleportationLonglisted
Wela MbusiA Far Cry From HomeLonglisted
2021[36]Mojisola AdebayoFamily TreeWinner
Benedict LombeLavaShortlisted
Dipo Baruwa-EttiThe Sun, the Moon, and the StarsShortlisted
Louisa HayfordAHEMMAA (QUEENS)Shortlisted
Somebody JonesHOW I LEARNED TO SWIMShortlisted
Zodwa NyoniThe Darkest Part of the NightShortlisted
babirye bukilwa...cakeLonglisted
Faith OmoleMy Father's FableLonglisted
Kalungi SsebandekeWater Made For GiantsLonglisted
Rex ObanoThe Hamlet VoyageLonglisted
Shenagh CameronTurpentine & TobaccoLonglisted
2022[37]Hannah Shury-SmithGo Back Home!Winner
Hannah Rose CatonThe Bridge Between You and EverythingShortlisted
Kwame OwusuDreaming and DrowningShortlisted
Beru TessemaHouse of IfeLonglisted
Catherine BissetPlaceholderLonglisted
Chukwudi OnwereDeptford BabyLonglisted
Lakesha Arie-AngeloRunaway BayLonglisted
2023[38]Faith OmoleKaleidoscopeWinner
Coral WylieLavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew.Shortlisted
Esohe UwadiaePots and Pans and PrayersShortlisted
John RwothomackNever Look BackShortlisted
Lanre MalaoluSamskaraShortlisted
Shona Bukola BabayemiboxesShortlisted
Tia-Renee MullingsLittle Angela DavisShortlisted
Daniel RusteauDismissedLonglisted
Joy Gharoro-AkpojotorThe Immigrant JoyLonglisted
2024[39]Inua EllamsOnce Upon A Time in SokotoWinner
Azuka OforkaThe Women of LlanrumneyShortlisted
Jason DavidArt BoyShortlisted
Max KolaruAlphabet SpaghettiShortlisted
Natasha CottriallHOMEShortlisted
Tife KusoroThe Last Black Girl on EarthShortlisted
JC Niala1918Longlisted
Mahad AliThe Fall of Radley RoadLonglisted
Robert AwosusiBlack Power PlaylistLonglisted
Sasha FrostFroggyLonglisted
Steven KavumaToddukaLonglisted
Tamzin MurrayDoughnuts and Ice CreamLonglisted
2025[40]Harry MouldThe Brenda LineWinner
Lanre MalaoluNow I SeeShortlisted
Mahad AliThe Spin RoomShortlisted
Ntombizodwa NyoniLiberationShortlisted
Yasmine Dankwahrite to partyShortlisted
Asa HaynesThe Attack of the 50ft Black WomanLonglisted
Kaleb D'AguilarHow to Keep Warm in WinterLonglisted
Lettie Precious12 Letters To My NameLonglisted
Llyrio BoatengA False FriendLonglisted

Legacy and published works

The Alfred Fagon Award has played a significant role in nurturing Black British playwrights who have gone on to major careers in theatre, film and television. Several winning and shortlisted plays have been published by leading drama publishers and gone on to productions at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre and in the West End.

Winners

Roy Williams, the inaugural winner in 1997 and winner again in 2010 for Sucker Punch, is among the most produced Black British playwrights of his generation. Sucker Punch, which starred a then-unknown Daniel Kaluuya in its 2010 Royal Court Theatre production, was published by Methuen Drama in 2011 and later issued as a Methuen Drama Modern Classic in 2015.[41]

Oladipo Agboluaje's 2009 winning play Iya-Ile (The First Wife) was nominated for an Olivier Award and later included in his Plays One collection, published by Oberon Books in 2014.[42]

Michaela Coel, whose 2012 winning play Chewing Gum Dreams launched a career that included Emmy and BAFTA wins.

Michaela Coel's 2012 winning play Chewing Gum Dreams, written and performed by Coel as her graduation production at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, was published by Oberon Books in 2013 and later reissued by Methuen Drama. It served as the basis for her BAFTA-winning Channel 4 series Chewing Gum (2015–2017) and launched a career that went on to include the BBC/HBO series I May Destroy You (2020), for which Coel became the first Black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.[43][44]

Diana Nneka Atuona's 2013 winning play Liberian Girl was published by Methuen Drama.[45]

Charlene James's 2014 winning play Cuttin' It, addressing female genital mutilation in Britain, won the George Devine Award, the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and the UK Theatre Award for Best New Play, and was adapted for BBC Audio Drama.[46][47]

Theresa Ikoko's 2015 winning play Girls was published by Methuen Drama and produced by Talawa Theatre Company, HighTide Theatre and Soho Theatre in 2016. Ikoko went on to co-write the BAFTA-nominated film Rocks (2019).[48][49]

Juliet Gilkes Romero's 2020 winning play The Whip, which explored the financial legacy of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre in 2020 and published by Oberon Books. Gilkes Romero also received the Roland Rees Bursary in 2019.[50][51]

Mojisola Adebayo's 2021 winning play Family Tree, about the medical legacy of Henrietta Lacks, was published by Methuen Drama in 2023.[52]

Jasmine Lee-Jones's 2019 winning play seven methods of killing kylie jenner, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, was published by Oberon Books in 2019 and later reissued by Methuen Drama as a Student Edition. In 2023, Lee-Jones became the youngest ever recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize.[53][54]

Shortlisted plays

Inua Ellams's play Barber Shop Chronicles was shortlisted in 2017 before he won the AFA in 2024 for Once Upon A Time in Sokoto.

Inua Ellams's Barber Shop Chronicles, shortlisted in 2017, was produced by the National Theatre, Fuel Theatre and Leeds Playhouse and has toured internationally. It is published by Oberon Books and as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary by Oladipo Agboluaje.[55] Ellams won the AFA outright in 2024 for Once Upon a Time in Sokoto.[39]

Chinonyerem Odimba's Princess & The Hustler, shortlisted in 2018, was published by Nick Hern Books in 2019 and is a set text for AQA GCSE English Literature.[56]

Nicôle Lecky's Superhoe, shortlisted in 2019, was published by Nick Hern Books in 2019. It was adapted by Lecky into the BBC Three series Mood (2022), which won two BAFTA awards including Best Mini-Series.[57]

Dexter Flanders's Foxes, shortlisted in 2018, was published by Methuen Drama. The play transferred to Seven Dials Playhouse in the West End in 2022 and to New York's 59E59 Theatre as part of Brits off Broadway in 2023.[58]

Dipo Baruwa-Etti's The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, shortlisted in 2021, was published by Faber.[59]

Benedict Lombe's Lava, shortlisted in 2021, was published by Nick Hern Books. It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2022, making Lombe the first playwright to win the prize for a debut play. Her follow-up play Shifters transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2024, making Lombe the third ever Black British woman to have a play staged in the West End.[60][61]

Zodwa Nyoni's The Darkest Part of the Night, shortlisted in 2021, was published by Methuen Drama and ranked by The Independent among the best plays of 2022.[62]

babirye bukilwa's ...cake, shortlisted for the 2021 award, was published by Nick Hern Books.[63]

Kwame Owusu's Dreaming and Drowning, shortlisted in 2022, was published by Nick Hern Books. It won the Mustapha Matura Award and the RSC 37 Plays Competition.[64]

Beru Tessema's House of Ife, longlisted in 2022, was produced at the Bush Theatre and published by Concord Theatricals.[65]

Tonderai Munyevu's Comrades, Mugabe, My Dad and Me, shortlisted in 2019, was produced by English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal and won the UK Theatre Award for Best New Play in 2022. It was also released as an Audible Original.[66]

Ryan Calais Cameron's Retrograde, shortlisted in 2019, was published by Methuen Drama. Originally developed as a staged reading in 2019 and premiered at the Kiln Theatre in 2023, the play transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in 2025, produced by Colman Domingo.[67]

Azuka Oforka's The Women of Llanrumney, shortlisted in 2024, was produced at Sherman Theatre in Cardiff and Theatre Royal Stratford East in London and saw sold-out performances.[68] Oforka went on to jointly win The Stage Debut Award for Best Writer in 2024 with this play.[69]

Longlisted plays

May Sumbwanyambe's After Independence, longlisted in 2015 and winner of the Alfred Fagon Audience Award in 2016, was published by Methuen Drama in 2016. It was produced by Papatango Theatre Company at the Arcola Theatre and later adapted for BBC Radio 4.[70]

Rex Obano's The Hamlet Voyage, longlisted in 2021, was produced by ReVerse Theatre Company.[71]

Faith Omole's My Father's Fable, longlisted in 2021, was published by Nick Hern Books. Omole subsequently won the Alfred Fagon Award outright in 2023 for Kaleidoscope.[72][38]

Catherine Bisset's Placeholder, longlisted in 2022, was published by Salamander Street.[73]

JC Niala's 1918, longlisted in 2024, draws on the history of allotments and was developed in association with the Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading.[74]

Lettie Precious's 12 Letters to My Name, longlisted in 2025, received a work-in-progress production at Bristol Old Vic and was subsequently produced by Graeae Theatre Company and Sheffield Theatres.[75][76]

Lanre Malaolu's Samskara, shortlisted in 2023, was published by Nick Hern Books in 2022. It sold out its run at The Yard Theatre and was ranked among the best plays of 2021 by The Guardian and The Stage.[77]

Tyrell Williams's Red Pitch, longlisted in 2019, was published by Nick Hern Books in 2022. It premiered at the Bush Theatre in 2022 and transferred to SohoPlace theatre in 2023.[78] Unprecedentedly, Red Pitch earned Williams nominations for both the Best Play and Most Promising Playwright categories at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2022, winning him the latter.[79]

See also

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