Hubert Benjamin Osborne (1881–1958) was a Canadian-born playwright and screenwriter who worked in the US.
He later worked as professor of drama at the Carnegie Institute of Technology until 1925, and then at Yale University until 1928.
[1] Osborne also worked at several American theaters and scripted films as well as Broadway and off-Broadway shows.
He wrote The Good Men Do (1917), April (1918), Shore Leave (1922), Rita Coventry (1923) and The Blue Bandanna (1924).
[2] Osborne also created a pioneering synthetic stage lighting system, which was used in productions of Shakespeare, with whose work he had a particular fascination.