Jack Hibberd
Jack (John Charles) Hibberd (born 12 April 1940 in Warracknabeal, Victoria) is an Australian playwright and doctor.
Biography
Hibberd studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, and resided in Newman College. He worked as a registrar in the Department of Social Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, in 1966/67. He worked as a general practitioner until 1984, then practised as a clinical immunologist. He is married to the actress Evelyn Krape, and a father to Lily (1972) and James (1974) from a first marriage, and to Spike and Molly.
Hibberd co-founded the Australian Performing Group (APG) in 1970. He was a member for ten years, and chairman for two. In 1983 he founded the Melbourne Writers Theatre, which is still active. He served of the Theatre Board of The Australia Council twice, and recently on its Literature Board.
Career
Hibberd has written close to 40 plays, some of them not full length. His first play, White With Wire Wheels, was staged in 1967 at the University of Melbourne, and is a proto-feminist revenge play, which satirizes male herd behaviour and the men's obsession with cars and alcohol-virility over women.
Jack Hibberd (politician)
John (Jack) Hibberd (1931 – May 15, 1997) was a Canadian politician and medical doctor, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse South Centre in the Yukon Territorial Council and the Legislative Assembly of Yukon from 1974 to 1981.
Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated as a surgeon, and later moved to Yukon to accept a position at Whitehorse General Hospital.
First elected to the territorial council in 1974, during his term he served on the executive committee as minister of consumer and corporate affairs and natural resources.
When territorial political parties were created for the 1978 election he joined the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. He was reelected to the new legislative assembly in 1978.
Hibberd resigned his seat in the legislature on April 15, 1981, after accepting a position as a surgical consultant with a hospital in British Columbia. He was succeeded in a by-election by Roger Kimmerly of the Yukon New Democratic Party, resulting in the NDP overtaking the Yukon Liberal Party in seats and supplanting them as the Official Opposition.
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