2025 Award

Harry Mould and Winsome Pinnock. Photo credit: Sharron Wallace

Harry Mould won with their play The Brenda Line. Harry wins £6,000 and was presented with their award by awardwinning playwright, Winsome Pinnock. The Awards were held on Friday, 5 December 2025 at the Dorfman, National Theatre.

Also announced were the winner of the Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme, Thea Melton, and the recipient of the Roland Rees Bursary, Amahra Spence.

Harry Mould said, “I was so proud to be longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award alongside such brilliant talents, so winning is a surreal delight. The Brenda Line is my first play, and to have it recognised in such a way, by an award I’ve followed for years, is a real honour and a vote of confidence that’s already had such a huge and vital impact on me as an emerging writer.

My mam, who loosely inspired the play and greatly inspires me, was born not far from Alfred Fagon, and I’m thankful to have the opportunity to dedicate this award to her.”

Chair of the Judges Daniel Bailey said, “This two-hander teaches us something about ourselves, and questions our moral compass page after page. We come out changed as do the characters by this most unlikely friendship. An intergenerational tug-of-war that actually gives us hope for a future despite being set in a past where we looked after each other, in more ways than one.”

Pcitures of Yvonne Brewster, James St. Ville, Olusola Oyeleye, Michael Buffong, Pat Cumper.

Yvonne Brewster OBE photo credit: Mike Fulford. James St. Ville, Pat Cumper, Michael Buffong and Olusola Oyeleye photo credit: Sharron Wallace.

Tributes were paid to Yvonne Brewster OBE, co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award and Talawa Theatre Company. Yvonne passed away in October 2025. Her husband, Starr Brewster was in the audience to hear the tributes from Chair of the Alfred Fagon Award, James St. Ville; playwright and former Artistic Director of Talawa, Pat Cumper; current Artistic Director Michael Buffong; and theatre director and Trustee of the Alfred Fagon Award, Olusola Oyeleye.