Errol Hill
Playwright, Author
1921 – 2003
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Who was Errol Hill?
Errol Gaston Hill was a Trinidadian-born playwright, actor and theater 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 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.
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- Born
- Aug 5, 1921
Port of Spain - Also known as
- Errol Gaston Hill
- Nationality
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Profession
- Education
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale University
Theatre studies
(1962 - 1966)
- Employment
- Dartmouth College
- Lived in
- Hanover
( - 2003/09/16)
- Hanover
- Died
- Sep 16, 2003
Hanover
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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