Alfred Fagon

Alfred Fagon (25 June 1937 – 29 August 1986) was a British playwright, poet and actor. He was one of the most notable Black British playwrights of the 1970s and 1980s. Fagon worked for British Rail and served in the British Army before he wrote and produced plays at theatres across the UK, including Royal Court Theatre and Hampstead Theatre. The location was chosen because Fagon would often say "the heart of St. Paul’s is at the corner of Ashley Road and Grosvenor Road". On 11 June 2020, during a period of protests by the Black Lives Matter movement, people reported to the local police that the bust was apparently coated with an unknown substance. This followed the removal of the statue of Edward Colston during a protest in Bristol on 7 June 2020. The statue was awarded Grade II listed status by Historic England in September 2022.

In 1996 the Alfred Fagon Award, an annual award for the best new play by a Black British playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the United Kingdom, was founded to commemorate his life and work.

Plays 11 Josephine House (1972) The Death of a Black Man (1975) Four Hundred Pounds (1982) Lonely Cowboy (1985)