Forbes Masson
Lyceum: Much Ado About Nothing, Cinderella, Stiff!, Art, The Breathing House, Jekyll & Hyde.
Other theatre: The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing (Jamie Lloyd Productions at Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Farm Hall (Haymarket, Theatre Royal Bath, Jermyn Street), Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street, Theatre Royal Bath), Jekyll & Hyde (Scottish tour), Macbeth, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Histories, Tender Thing, Ahasverus The Grain Store, Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Night's Dream, Boy in the Dress, The Magician's Elephant, Swan Song (Royal Shakespeare Company), As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet (RSC, Roundhouse, The Armoury New York), Summer and Smoke (Almeida, Duke of Yorks), Little Shop of Horrors (Open Air Regents Park), Travesties (Menier, Apollo), Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre Royal Bath), King Lear (Headlong, Everyman, Young Vic), Big Fish (The Other Palace), Boudica, Merry Wives of Windsor, Bartholemew Fair, As You Like It (The Globe), Macbeth, Richard III, The Ruling Class, Dr Faustus (Jamie Lloyd Productions), Sleeping Beauty, Gamblers, The Real World, Cinderella, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Endgame, Ashes to Ashes (Tron Theatre), Wormwood (Traverse).
Television: Only Child (BBC), The Crown (Netflix), As You Like It (winner of 2025 Bafta Award for Best Children's Scripted - CBeebies, Globe), Father Brown, Doctors, Crime, EastEnders, Red Dwarf, The High Life, Rab C. Nesbitt, The Game, Hamish Macbeth, Monarch of the Glen, Is It Bill Bailey? (BBC), Catastrophe, Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (Channel 4).
Film: The Road Dance, Gypsy Woman.
Audio: Slow Air, The Rise of the Nazis, Nuremberg, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Quest of Donal Q, McLevy (BBC), Sad Sunk Rock, Doctor Who - Wages of Time, Doctor Who - Girl Interrupted, Jago and Lightfoot (Big Finish), Raj (Audible).
Writing: The High Life (BBC), Victor and Barry (Edinburgh Festival, Glasgow Mayfest, Donmar Warehouse, Sydney Opera House as part of Australian Tour, London Palladium), Crackers (Belgrade), At Home with Feste (RSC), Stiff! (Tron, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Dundee Rep), Mince, Pants (Dundee Rep), Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Aladdie, Weans in the Wood (Tron Theatre), Forbes Masson's Half Hour, Scones and Tea with V and B (BBC Radio Scotland).
Books: Victor and Barry's Kelvinside Compendium.
Forbes is an Associate Artist with RSC and NTS.
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