Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster, director, designer and producer. Afternoon host on New York’s Classical Radio Station 105.9FM, WQXR, host of the national radio concerts of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has hosted more the 60 concerts on-stage at Carnegie Hall. Executive Producer of ThePublic Theater’s 2020 Shakespeare in the Park on the Radio of RICHARD II and ROMEO Y JULIETA, with Lupita Nyong’o. Co-Creator and Producer of the national tour of AN EVENING WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN. Co-Director and Projection Designer of the live national tour and PBS TV Special of CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD, by composer Craig Hella Johnson. Founding Executive  Artistic Director of ArtsRock.org of Rockland County, NY, bringing professional concerts and conversations to his upstate community. Elliott has directed several versions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with such Scrooges as David Hyde Pierce, F. Murray Abraham, Brian Cox, Tony Roberts and Kathleen Turner. He regularly produces, directs and designs symphony concerts: LA Philharmonic, The NY Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, New Haven Symphony Pasadena Pops and the Little Orchestra Society in venues including the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center. Projection Designer for recent Off-Broadway play TECH SUPPORT. Orchestra narrator: Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the  Animals, Peter and the Wolf, Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale and Britten’s Young Person’s Guide. For 12 years he was on A&E Television as host of Breakfast with the Arts. In the late 1970’s he appeared on the original THE GONG SHOW with Chuck Barris on NBC. He holds a BA in Theater from the University of Texas, Austin.

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