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Bob Freville(May 3, 1983- ) is a writer and filmmaker from New York. He has written for several websites, newspapers, anthologies and magazines, in addition to writing, producing, acting and directing motion pictures. Freville's writing is noted for its rhythmic phraseology and his repeated use of words like "guttersnipe" and "estrus." His films are stylistically disparate from his journalistic prose in their use of slang-friendly dialogue or no dialogue at all.

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Bob Frevillewas born on May 3, 1983, at North Shore Hospital, in Manhasset, New York, the third son in a family of five. His mother Cheri Freville is a former-secretary whose father Ernest Pohl was the inventor of the steam iron (for Steem Electric) and whose mother wrote for Christian magazines. Freville's father John H. Freville is a veteran of Vietnam who is currently self-employed as an independent distributor of tools. At Freville's birth he came out cooing and later kicked a doctor in the genitals for trying to examine his throat.

Freville's grandmother Grace Freville gave him an old manual typewriter at her last yard sale, at her home in Whitestone, New York, when he was nine-years old. Freville immediately took a shine to writing and started hammering out crudely disguised variations on Batman and Archie comics. The young Freville swore he would be a stand-up comedian or a comic book artist before he would ever be a career writer.

As a child, growing up in Bayside, Queens, Freville honed his acting skills by wandering into Korean stationary stores with a camouflaged tote bag full of piggy bank change and weaving a sad story about how he needed to buy cigarettes for his invalid grandfather (In reality, Freville never got to meet his late-grandfather Ernest Pohl, but maintains that he feels spiritually bound to him). His early youth was spent getting in trouble with the local immigrant children and rescuing stray cats from a cruel neighbor with meat hooks in his garage.

Freville's adolescence was a troubled one that landed him in a Boces-funded school on Long Island, after his family moved to Lindenhurst, New York, in 1993. Suffering from anxiety and severe bouts of depression, the young Freville attended regular therapy sessions where he says he developed the ability to calm himself through stream-of-consciousness writing, and learned to tune out complacent authority figures by drawing cryptic pictures. Having been prescribed a number of anti-anxiety, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medications (Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil and Wellbutrin among them) throughout his early teens, Freville found himself unable to properly communicate with his peers, except for outbursts of rage or misdirected emotions. He treated this condition by turning inwards and producing a series of manuscripts that would ultimately end up buried or burned.

At sixteen years of age, Freville dropped out of Brennan High School and enrolled in a home learning program (Keystone National High School) that awarded its graduates a legitimate high school diploma from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. This same year Freville sent samples of his poetry and short stories to a local newspaper Editor who gave him a job as freelance contributor. ACJ Publications' Carolyn James was his first mentor, in a string of short-lived gigs as freelance journalist. While writing for the ACJ tri-town triumvirate (The Amityville Record, The Babylon Beacon and The Massapequa Post) on the subject of small business and sports (two subjects that Freville admittedly knew nothing about) he got his first computer and quickly discovered www.getunderground.com, the first counter-culture portal to give Freville carte-blanche to write whatever he wanted.

In the years to come Freville wrote for a number of papers and websites, the most notorious being Good Times Magazine where he had a falling out with Editor Jesse Serwer after Serwer accused him of using words that were "too collegiate." It was Good Times' treatment of his rock concert coverage that gave him his first taste of "the cruel machinations of objective journalism." After thankless and payless gigs such as this one, Freville swore never to write for free again, unless he was given the auspices with which to write "any truth" he might "dig up and throw out there."

From 2002 to 2005 Freville served as GetUnderground's Slippery Id columnist, for which he wrote forty-eight columns in addition to several front page features and other media coverage. His subjects varied from drug experimentation dissertations (one editor paid for salvia extract to be mailed to Freville for this purpose) to political corruption. Highlights also included a uniquely personal interview with pornstar Tabitha Stevens (aka Lisa Lamborghini, who Freville was to write a screenplay entitled "Contract Girl") and a pseudo-interview with U.N. Representative Jeanne E. Head, on the subject of abortion.