The leading award for Black British Playwrights. 2025 winner Harry Mould. Chair of Judges @DanielLBailey. Award Producers Pauline Walker & Hannah Caton
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8 Dec 2025
We had another wonderful awards ceremony last Friday @NationalTheatre. We started with a tribute to the Awards co-founder, Yvonne Brewster OBE. Thanks to James St. Ville, Pat Cumper, Michael Buffong and Olusola Oyeleye for their reflections about a great theatre pioneer.
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We're absolutely thrilled for playwright, Harry Mould, who has been selected for the Inaugural Jerwood Royal Court Commissioning Scheme 2026 🎉!! Harry won the AFA Best New Play of the Year 2025, for their outstanding, compassionate and witty play, The Brenda Line.
We’re delighted to share that we are a recipient of the inaugural Jerwood Royal Court Commissioning Scheme to support Harry Mould & the development of a new play.
This scheme is about backing ambitious writing & we look forward to working with Harry on this bold new commission.
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Submissions are now open for the Alfred Fagon Award 2026🎉! The winning writer will receive £6k, and excerpts from their winning play will be showcased at the award ceremony, at the @NationalTheatre.
✍️🏿🗓️Closes 31st July 2026 - 5pm. Please see the website for entry details.
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CASTING CALL FOR BLAXIT MEANS BLAXIT by winner of the 2025 Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme, Thea Melton.
*Paid Opportunity* - See the pics for audition information and how to apply.
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8 Dec 2025
We had another wonderful awards ceremony last Friday @NationalTheatre. We started with a tribute to the Awards co-founder, Yvonne Brewster OBE. Thanks to James St. Ville, Pat Cumper, Michael Buffong and Olusola Oyeleye for their reflections about a great theatre pioneer.
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8 Dec 2025
Thanks to the director and cast - Danielle Kassaraté, Lisa Palfrey, Saffron Dey and Melanie Marshall who delivered a wonderful reading of extracts from the winning play, The Brenda Line by Harry Mould.
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1 Dec 2025
Arts Council England (ACE) has unveiled a new £2 million scheme to support the ambitions of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse theatre makers in the North of England. artsprofessional.co.uk/news/…
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27 Nov 2025
We're delighted to announce the shortlist for The Alfred Fagon Award Best New Play of the Year 📣🎉! Along with the Q&As, which you can read on our website.
A HUGE congratulations to Ntombizodwa Nyoni, Lanre Malaolu, Yasmine Dankwah, Harry Mould and Mahad Ali.
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17 Nov 2025
Massive thanks to Paula, Dipo and Juliet for their commitment to the craft of playwriting and for teaching the building blocks of playwriting such as narrative; structure and plot; characterisation and character development; writing effective dialogue; and visualisation, imagery
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17 Nov 2025
written feedback from their workshop leader and up to ten writers from across the three workshops will be selected to receive dramaturgy on their scripts. We’re aiming to showcase extracts from the ten plays at our Festival of Staged Readings in 2026 to mark the 30th anniversary
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17 Nov 2025
of the Alfred Fagon Award. We can’t wait to read the plays.
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17 Nov 2025
Recently we’ve been in Bristol, Leeds and Nottingham running regional writing workshops for new and emerging Black British playwrights. We asked the writers to come with an idea or with the play they’re currently working on, and it’s been wonderful to watch the participants
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17 Nov 2025
engaging with the workshop leaders, playwrights Paula B. Stanic, Oladipo Agboluaje and Juliet Gilkes Romero, soaking up their knowledge and being inspired to put in practice what they’ve learned.
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