Herbert Major Prentice (1890-1963[a]) was a British theatre producer and director, and founder of the Sheffield Repertory Company.

[1] and Terence Gray's Festival Theatre at Cambridge, where in April 1927 he directed George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion.

[3] During that period he also produced works in London (the first being Once in a Lifetime in 1933) and, from 1934 to 1937, for Barry Jackson's Malvern Festivals.

[1] Several of his Birmingham Repertory productions were aired by BBC radio,[4] and in 1938 he directed the Birmingham Repertory Company in a production of Laugh with Me, a comedy, and another of The Wooing of Anne Hathaway, which were screened by the early BBC television service on 2 October and 27 November respectively.

[1] His dramatisation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland premiered at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon in 1947, and was in turn adapted for television by John Glyn-Jones and shown by the BBC on Christmas Day 1948.