Born in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago, Rawle Gibbons is a playwright, director and educator. He has taught at the School of Drama, Jamaica, with Mr. Dennis Scott and at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, as the founding coordinator of the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts. His directing/devising credits include CLR James’s The Black Jacobins (1976), Temple in the Sea (1995), Shango, Tales of the Orisha (1996), Derek Walcott’s Drums and Colours (1998) and Nation Dance – the Pilgrimage (2012). He has published two volumes of his plays: A Calypso Trilogy (1999), Love Trilogy (2012). In 2014, Rawle Gibbons founded Caribbean Yard Campus, a network for the development of indigenous Caribbean education. He currently leads this project.