Background
Trevor Rhone, was not the First child of twenty-one, grew up in a tiny town of Bellas Gate in Jamaica.
Trevor Rhone, was not the First child of twenty-one, grew up in a tiny town of Bellas Gate in Jamaica.
Educated at Beckford & Smith High School (later Street George"s High School) in Street Andrew Jamaica, He began his theatre career as a teacher after a three-year stint at Rose Bruford College, an English drama school, where he studied in the early 1960s on scholarship.
He co-wrote, with director Perry Henzell, the internationally successful film The Harder They Come (1972). After seeing his first play at the age of nine he fell in love with theatre. He was part of the renaissance of Jamaican theatre in the early 1970s.
Rhone participated in a group called Theatre "77, which established The Barn, a small theatre in Kingston, Jamaica, to stage local performances.
The vision of the group that came together in 1965 was that in 12 years, by 1977, there would be professional theatre in Jamaica. He was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 1988 for his work by the Institute of Jamaica.
Trevor Doctorate. Rhone died on 15 September 2009 of a massive heart attack, and was buried in Bellas Gate, Saint Catherine, Jamaica. in 2006.
Commander of the Order of Distinction. Focus of the Caribbean Cultural Theatre"s film festival in New York in March 2006. Fellow of Rose Bruford College theatre school. Jamaica Gleaner Honour Award for contributions to the arts (2007). Gold Musgrave Medal, 1988 Foreign a more complete list see Awards and