TELEVISION

Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster and Producer.

In 2007 he co-hosted the "PBS Pledge Breaks" for GREAT MOMENTS AT THE MET, a national television special and in 2008 "The Jewish Americans".

For more than 12 years he was with the A&E Television Network as host of Breakfast with the Arts. He was nominated for an Emmy in 2002 and 2005. The show featured segments on movies, Broadway, rock, jazz, world and classical music, in studio performances and extensive interviews with guests.

Additional A&E hosting duties have included Biography^® This Week, Richard Rodgers: Falling in Love, Holiday in New York, A&E In Concert, Pavarotti in Paris, BioArts and The Pablo Casals Festival from Puerto Rico.

In March of 2005 he hosted for PBS "Your Money, Your Children, Your Life" on WNET, Thirteen in New York.

For more than five years Elliott was the "voice" of programs and specials on CNN. He voiced the opening segments on CNN for the 2000 Presidential debates, Vice Presidential debates, Election Night Coverage, the Bush Inauguration and The Attacks on America. He voiced the CNN series: CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT, Live from..., The Point, Newsstand, and Impact.

A popular voice over artist, he has recorded national and regional commercials, documentaries, industrials and several onboard programs for airlines. Recent voice over work includes narrations for HBO's G-String Divas and Heir to an Execution.

He reported entertainment news for Showtime, The Movie Channel and FLIX and has produced field pieces for E! Entertainment Television, interviewing Anthony Hopkins, Michael J. Fox, Kenny Rogers and Joan Rivers. He's produced pieces for The E! True Hollywood Story and Celebrity Profile.

Elliott hosted the national telecast of The 3 Tenors Concert live from Giants Stadium on July 20, 1996, which was repeated on PBS.

RADIO

He is the recipient of broadcasting's highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award and two New York State Broadcasting Awards.

He can now be heard on 96.3 FM WQXR (1994 & 2003-2005) in New York and on WQXR.com, the classical radio station in New York City owned by The New York Times. He is heard nationally as the radio host of the syndicated concerts from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Seattle Symphony and The Jerusalem Symphony..

During 1995 Elliott co-hosted the nationally syndicated talk show, The Late Late Radio Show with Tom Snyder and Elliott Forrest, for the CBS Network Radio (1995). The show featured one-on-one celebrity interviews and nightly conversations between Tom and Elliott. As for his part of the show, Elliott interviewed hundreds of people included Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, John Cleese, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Arnett, Bill Mahar, Larry King, Garrison Keillor, Garry Shandling, Elvis Costello, Peter Ustinov, members of the rock groups The Moody Blues, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, among others. On working with Mr. Snyder, Elliott considers it a high point in his career "to have talked over the daily news events and the everyday events of life with one of this country's legendary broadcasters."

From 1986 to 1993, Elliott was morning drive-time host on WNCN-FM, a New York City station. He broadcast special events from The United Nations and Carnegie Hall (co-hosting with Peter Jennings).

His first radio job was in his hometown of Midland, Texas on KNFM. He went on to work at Kansas City's KXTR-FM, (where he was also Program Director); WEVD, NY; and WKJY, Long Island.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Elliott is the Co-Artistic Director of the new Riverspace Arts in Nyack, producing and presenting concerts, events and series of programs. Highlights include producing events with LEWIS BLACK, EVE ENSLER and an evening with EDWARD ALBEE interviewed by BILL IRWIN; overseeing children's series, film series and music concerts. www.riverspace.org

He produdced projections and lighting THE TOWN HALL in New York City's Times Square for the 60th Anniversary Concert of The Little Orchestra Society.

And produced and directed WHAT'S ON DVD for THE TV GUIDE CHANNEL.

Elliott has his own production company, Forrest Productions, LLC. In an exclusive licensing arrangement, he acquired the radio rights to A&E's signature television series, Biography^® and produced Biography^® for Radio which was heard all across the US and Canada. Over 700 episodes were produced.

Along with partner, Broadway Producer Don Frantz, Elliott is co-producing WALKIN' BROADWAY™ the first audio-walking tour of Broadway and Times Square. Tourists and theater lovers stroll from theater to theater and hear stories from Broadway stars and artists and hear music from shows past and present. www.WalkinBroadway.com

He has Produced and Directed plays, musicals and events in Texas, Kansas City and New York.

CONSULTING

Overlapping his broadcasting work he has been a media trainer, presentation coach and lecturer. Working first in New York with Carl Byoir and Associates, then Hill & Knowlton Public Relations he then went on to consult with Virgil Scudder and Associates, one of the top media training companies in the world. For the past 15 years he has prepared CEOs, managers, sports figures, doctors, authors, rock stars, celebrities and politicians on how to deal with the media, be on radio and television, handle crisis situations and give press conferences. Both individually and in large groups he has instructed people on how to enhance their presentation skills. From New York to Toronto to Marrakech he has lectured or coached men and woman from such fields as entertainment, education, health, finance, technology and international trade.

PERSONAL APPEARANCES

Over the years, Elliott has been a host, moderator, guest speaker and lecturer. In December of 2005 he moderated a panel in Las Vegas in front of an audience of thousands on Deep Vain Thrombosis for a major pharmaceutical company. And in January of 2006 he hosted the opening concerts of the new Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts in Amarillo, TX.

Originally from Texas, Elliott received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of Texas in Austin. He lives just outside New York City with his wife and two children. He is on the board of The New York Youth Symphony and The Creative Coalition and regularly advocates in Washington on behalf of the arts.