Television
Elliott is in his 11th year with
the A&E Television Network as
host of Breakfast with the Arts (Sunday
mornings at 8am-10am/ET). Breakfast is the only regularly scheduled
national television show dedicated to the classical art forms of classical
music, ballet, opera, theater and film. The show features award winning
documentaries, performance pieces and interviews with guests from all forms of
artistic disciplines. Previous guests
include Kenneth Branagh, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Catherine
Deneauve, Isabella Rossilini, Phil Collins, Blythe Danner, Alec Baldwin,
Matthew Broderick, Chazz Palminteri, Laurie Anderson, Vanessa Redgrave, Stanley
Tucci, opera stars Cecilia Bartoli and Marlyn Horne, film composers John Barry
and James Horner, choreographers Twyla Tharp, Eliot Feld, Peter Martins, David
Parsons and Paul Taylor, conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Kurt Masur and Keith
Lockhart, among many others. 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 and The Pablo Casals Festival from Puerto Rico.
For more than five years Elliott has been a “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.
He reported entertainment news for Showtime, The Movie Channel
and FLIX and produced field pieces
for E! Entertainment Television,
interviewing Anthony Hopkins, Michael J. Fox, Kenny Rogers and Joan Rivers. He
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.
He appeared twice on The Gong Show on NBC in the mid ‘70s.
Radio
He is the recipient of one of broadcasting’s
honors, the George Foster Peabody Award
and two New York State Broadcasting
Awards.
He can now be heard every weekend
on 96.3 FM WQXR in New York and on WQXR.com.
This is the only full time classical radio station in New York City and it’s owned by The New York Times.
During 1995 Elliott co-hosted the nationally syndicated
talk show, The Late Late Radio Show with
Tom Snyder and Elliott Forrest, for
the CBS Radio Network. 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, Geraldo Rivera,
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 news events of
the day 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).
In an exclusive arrangement with BMG, Elliott produced
and hosted The RCA Victor Stage and
Screen Hour. The weekly audio program was heard via DIRECTV in homes across the country.
His first radio job was in his hometown of Midland, Texas. He went on to
work at Kansas City’s KXTR-FM, (where he was also Program Director); WEVD, NY; and WKJY, Long
Island.
Producer
Elliott has his own production company, Forrest Productions, LLC. He acquired
the radio rights to A&E’s signature television
series, Biography® and produces Biography® for Radio which is now
heard across the US and Canada.
Along with partner, Broadway Theater producer Don Frantz,
Elliott is co-producing WALKIN' BROADWAYä the first audio-walking tour
of Broadway and Times Square.
Participants stroll from theater to theater and hear stories from Broadway
artists and music from shows.
Stage
In April of 1997, Elliott hosted Bach at The Beacon, the first Bach
Festival in New York
City. The program, at the
historic Beacon Theater on Broadway, featured
the first ever on-stage performance of Wendy Carlos (Switched on Bach) and jazz
musician Jacques Loussier.
Elliott appeared twice on stage doing comedy at Carnegie
Hall with composer and humorist Peter Schickele. Elliott is featured with Professor Schickele
on the Telarc recording
PDQ Bach: WTWP - Classical Talkity Talk
Radio, which won the Grammy Award for best Comedy Album of
the Year.
Elliott also appeared in the title role of Stravinsky’s
“The Soldier’s Tale” at the Kaye Playhouse, conducted by Robert Craft.
Before the bulk of his broadcasting career, Elliott
directed and acted in plays and comedy groups in New York, Kansas City and Texas.
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, Kara Sheridan. They have two children. He is a board member
of The Creative Coalition.
June 2003
exquisite music - superbly performed