Bob Herbert

(1923- ), born Yea, Victoria, has worked in pantomime, vaudeville, radio, television and little theatre as actor, stage hand, stage manager and director, and has written numerous plays. After serving in the AIF and RAAF in the Second World War, he spent four years as a member of the New Theatre, Melbourne, before becoming theatres manager at the University of New England. His plays include 'Campari Rocks', 'Sex and Violets', Mr Jones (1973), 'New England Honeymoon', A Man of Respect (published in Biala 1977), 'An Isolated Case of Heterochromia', which won second prize in the drama section of the 1970 Captain Cook literary competition, No Names ...No Pack Drill (1980), 'The Girl with the Odd-Coloured Eyes' (1981), 'By the Billabong' (1981), and The Last Wake at She-Oak Creek (1988). No Names ... No Pack Drill, which deals with a relationship between a young widow and an American deserter, shared first prize in the WA sesquicentenary play-writing competition, has been extensively staged in Australia and was produced as a film with the title Rebel.