Errol Hill

Errol Gaston Hill (5 August 1921 – 15 September 2003) was a Trinidadian-born playwright, actor and theatre historian, "one of the leading pioneers in the West Indies theatre". Beginning as early as the 1940s, he was the leading voice for the development of a national theatre in the West Indies. He was the first tenured faculty member of African descent at Dartmouth College in the United States, joining the drama department there in 1968.

Career Errol Gaston Hill was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 5 August 1921. to Thomas David Hill and Lydia (née Gibson) Hill. He studied in London, England, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he graduated in 1951, He also wrote some poetry, published in anthologies and regional literary journals.

Selected bibliography The Ping-Pong and Broken Melody (1958). UWI Extra-Mural Department, Mona. Man Better Man in J. Gassner (ed.), The Yale School of Drama Presents (1954), New York: Dutton. Wey-Wey: Strictly Matrimony: The Square Peg (1966). UWI Extra-Mural Department, St Augustine. Trinidad Carnival (1972). University of Texas Press. A Time and a Season – Eight Caribbean Plays, ed. (1976). Carifesta and UWI Extra-Mural Department, Mona. The Theater of Black Americans (1980), Prentice-Hall. Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors (April 1986), University of Massachusetts Press. The Jamaican Stage, 1655–1900 (1992), University of Massachusetts Press. Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre, ed. (1994). A History of African American Theatre, ed. with James V. Hatch (2003), Cambridge University Press. .