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- Birth nameJohn Herbert Brundage
- A writer of plays, stories, essays and poems, best known for his ground-breaking play "Fortune And Men's Eyes" which opened at Actor's Playhouse in New York in 1967, then played around the capitals of the world for more than thirty years. There have been hundreds of productions in many language translations. The play is performed in many summer-stock and amateur productions every year in the USA. Herbert has written 24 plays altogether, of which half have reached production with varying degrees of success. Six plays have been published by Grove Press, Penguin Books, Talon Books and Canadian Theatre Review. Essays and articles have appeared in the Village Voice, Saturday Night, Canadian Drama, Onion and the Fortune Newsletter (a prison reform monthly). He was made a lifetime member of Actors Studio, USA. in 1967.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Winner of the Chalmers Award 1975 (Best Canadian Play Performed on Stage) for "Fortune and Men's Eye"
- Lifetime Member: Actors Studio, New York 1967
- Member of Societe Des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (France) 1971
- Special Honour Library of Congress of The United States 1969
- Honourary Member of The Board of Directors of Fortune Society (Prison Reform organization) 1968
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