Alfred Fagon

Alfred Fagon was a Jamaican-born British playwright, poet, and actor, notable for his significant contributions to Black British theatre in the 1970s and 1980s. He migrated to England in 1955 and worked for British Rail in Nottingham. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals in 1958, becoming the Middleweight Boxing Champion in 1962 and leaving the army in 1963. He then moved to Bristol, where he started his acting career at the Bristol Arts Centre in the play The Little Mrs Foster Show by Henry Livings.

His plays include 11 Josephine House and The Death of a Black Man. Fagon’s work earned him posthumous recognition through the Alfred Fagon Award, established in 1996 to honor outstanding new plays by Black British writers.