Honours and Awards
Fagan is a Distinguished University Professor at the State University of New York at Brockport. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Wayne State University, and earned a Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Rochester in 1986, and holds honoris causa Doctors degrees from Juilliard School, Hobart College, William Smith College, and Nazareth College.
Fagan received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, and a three-year Choreography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was made Commander in the Order of Distinction of Jamaica in August 2001, and was presented the Prime Minister's Award by Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson .
In 2005 he received the Artist of the Year Award from the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester.
- Awards
- 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography – The Lion King
- 1998 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography – The Lion King
- 1998 Tony Award for Best Choreography – The Lion King
- 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer – The Lion King
- 2001 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award – Lifetime Achievement
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