Born Anthony Michael Hall on July 16, 1948, Hall writes and makes plays for street, stage and screen functioning as an actor, director, writer, drama teacher and workshop leader. Hall was born in Port-of-Spain, and attended Naparima College, San Fernando. He gained a Bachelor's degree in drama and education from the University of Alberta (1969-73), Edmonton, Canada and obtained a diploma in film and advanced television production at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (1978-80).
It is believed regionally that Hall is a pioneer in community television in the Caribbean. With the video production house Banyan Limited, in T&T, he was part of a group, of artists, which created indigenous soap operas, TV dramas and current affairs programmes in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.