Background
Hill, Errol Gaston was born on August 5, 1921 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Son of Thomas David and Lydia (Gibson) Hill.
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This volume is concerned with the historical record, over many years, of black actors as interpreters of the plays of William Skaekspeare.
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The Jamaican Stage, 1655-1900 focuses on the history of theater in Jamaica, and highlights the developmental process that occurred in the Caribbean from colonialism through the struggles for independence to the establishment of a cultural identity. In the book, Hill shows a gradual transition from a theatre that was once dominated by the form and content of English and North American companies to the beginnings of more traditional cultural expression characteristic of peasants. He further considers the traditional practices of the working class people to be the source of inspiration for an indigenous art form. The Jamaican Stage also provides a history of theatre spaces, touring and local companies, professional actors and actresses, and early playwrights in Jamaica.
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Hill, Errol Gaston was born on August 5, 1921 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Son of Thomas David and Lydia (Gibson) Hill.
Graduate diploma, Royal Academy Dramatic Art, London, 1951. Diploma in dramatic art, University London, 1951. Bachelor summa cum laude, Yale University, 1962.
Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting, Yale University, 1962. Doctor of Fine Arts in Theatre History, Yale University, 1966.
Beginning as early as the 1940s, he was the leading voice for the development of a national theater in the West Indies. He was the first tenured African-American faculty member at Dartmouth College in the United States, joining the drama department there in 1968. Hill was an actor and announcer with the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, and subsequently went to teach at the University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, and Portuguese-of-Spain, Trinidad, as creative arts tutor (1953-1958 and 1962-1965).
Between 1958 and 1966 he was also working as a playwright.
He was a teaching fellow at the, 1958-1966. University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (1965-1967), and then an associate professor of drama at Richmond College of the City University of New York, 1967-1968.
He was a professor at Dartmouth College from 1968 to 1989. After 1972 he devoted himself to scholarship and writing.
His early work focused on creating a body of plays uniquely suited for audiences and actors in the West Indies.
Hill"s works include the play Manitoba Better Manitoba (1964) and the non-fiction books The Trinidad Carnival (1972), The Theater of Black Americans (1980), and the Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. He also wrote some poetry, published in anthologies and regional literary journals. Carifesta and
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Member visiting committee Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University. Fellow College American Theatre. Member American Society Theatre Research (executive committee), International Federation Theatre Research, American Theatre and Drama Society, National Conference Afro-American Theatre, Association Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies, Caribbean Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa (president New Hampshire Alpha chapter 1982-1985).
Married Grace L. E. Hope, August 11, 1956. Children: Da'aga, Claudia, Melina, Aaron.