[2] 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.
[4] He studied in London, England, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he graduated in 1951,[3] and went on to join Dartmouth College, becoming the first tenured faculty member of African descent there.
[4] Hill was an actor and announcer with the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, and subsequently went to teach at the University of West Indies, in Kingston, Jamaica, and Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, as creative arts tutor (1953–58 and 1962–65).
His early work focused on creating a body of plays uniquely suited for audiences and actors in the West Indies.