Fabian Barracks
Fabian Barracks is a prolific, award-winning Jamaican playwright, director and producer who has written and produced ten commercial productions. He is passionate about youth development and focuses on producing plays that explore some critical themes affecting young people, and by extension the family.
His achievements include winning Actor Boy Awards for Best Children’s Play and Best Comedy, as well as Youth View Awards for Favourite Local Theatre Play. His 2018 production Black Sheep received ten Actor Boy Award nominations including: Best Production, Best New Jamaican Play and Best Children’s Theatre.
Barracks is also a philanthropist who serves as the chairman for a charitable organization known for making generous donations to students living in vulnerable communities across Jamaica.
An alum of the Wolmer’s Boys’ School and graduate of the University of the West Indies, he did undergraduate studies in Entertainment and Cultural Enterprise Management and is pursuing a Master’s Degree in leadership in Education from the Liverpool John Moores University in UK to strengthen his work in empowering youth through theatre arts.
Through his company Barracks Entertainment Productions which was established in 2010, and The Barracks Theatre which opened in 2019, he has provided a supportive arts and education space that is a hub for young creatives. This way, he continues to stay true to his vision of bringing out the best in youth through the arts, while nurturing young talents and contributing to the cultural landsape through the production of quality theatre.
Since COVID-19 Pandemic, Barracks has launched a publication of three of his most popular plays in a book called Caribbean Plays for Modern Youth with hopes of his work being added to the CSEC Literatures in English and Theatre Arts syllabus. The production company has also pivoted from live theatre and has produced a highly popular YouTube series, Balla which has garnered a reach of over 300,000 youth across the island and in the Diaspora.
