Forbes trained at RSAMD in Glasgow (now The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).

Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest (Jamie Lloyd Productions at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre/Bath Theatre Royal); Jekyll & Hyde (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh & Tour); Farm Hall (Jermyn Street Theatre/Bath Theatre Royal & tour); Newsies! (Troubadour Theatre); The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Magician’s Elephant, The Boy in the Dress, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Histories, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Grain Store, Morte d’Arthur, The Pilate Project, Ahasverus, Tender Thing (RSC); Summer and Smoke (Almeida/Duke of Yorks); Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/Apollo Theatre); Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead/Theatre Royal Haymarket); Doctor Faustus (Duke of York’s); Macbeth, Richard II, The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios/Jamie Lloyd Productions); Big Fish (The Other Palace); King Lear (Liverpool Everyman/Young Vic/Headlong); The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); Bartholomew Fair, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Boudica (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dumbstruck, Terror (Lyric Hammersmith); Art, The Breathing House, Stiff (Lyceum Edinburgh); As You Like It,Romeo and Juliet (RSC Residency in New York); Life of Stuff (Donmar); Laurel and Hardy (Edinburgh Festival/Wellington Festival NZ); The Trick is to Keep Breathing, The Real World, Cinzano (Tron Theatre Glasgow).

Television includes: Only Child (BBC Scotland); The Crown (Netflix); Royal Mob (History); As You Like It - winner of 2025 BAFTA award for best Children’s Scripted (CBeebies/Globe); Irvine Welsh’s Crime (ITV); EastEnders, Father Brown, Doctors, Shetland, Monarch of the Glen, Rab C Nesbitt, City Lights, Hamish Macbeth, Dead Boss, Supergirly, Red Dwarf, The High Life (BBC); Taggart (STV); Catastrophe, The Young Person’s Guide to becoming a Rock Star, Halfway to Paradise (Channel 4).

Radio includes: Fags, Mags & Bags,Doctor Who-Wages of Time, Doctor Who-Girl Interrupted, Jago and Lightfoot (Big Finish); The Rise of the Nazis, Macbeth, The Tempest, Nuremberg, Catastrophic Injury, Behind Closed Doors, The Red Gauntlet, Waverley, The Fair Maid of Perth, The Quest of Donal Q, Stevenson in Love, Pinkerton, Conan Doyle-A life in Letters, To Throw Down God, Scones and Tea with V and B, The Forbes Masson Half Hour (BBC); Raj (Audible); The Marlowe Sessions (L6L21).

Films include: The Road Dance; Gypsy Woman.

Writing: Victor and Barry, (Edinburgh Festival/Donmar Warehouse/ Australian Tour; The High Life (with Alan Cumming) BBC; Stiff (Tron/Lyceum); The High Life (BBC); Victor and Barry (Edinburgh Festival/Donmar/ Sydney Opera House); Mince (Dundee Rep); At Home with Feste (RSC); Jack and The Beanstalk, Cinderella, Weans in the Wood, Snow White (Tron Glasgow); Crackers (Belgrade, Coventry).

Books: Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium co written with Alan Cumming,published by 404ink

Forbes is an associate artist with the RSC.

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