Forrest’s Story
While in his early twenties, Forrest moved to Amsterdam with one hundred dollars and a whole lot of dreams. With naivety propelling him forward, Forrest landed his first acting role with the Muzenis Theatre Company where he spent the better part of a year and a half traveling around Holland honing his craft, while continuing to take various acting workshops in and around Amsterdam. After playing Dostoyevsky’s tortured character Raskolnikov in an adaptation of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Forrest was invited to join the international Amsterdam Chamber Theatre and spent the next four years performing around Amsterdam and Europe in various stage productions. Over those four years Forrest began to write skits and one act plays that he and his fellow actors would perform, catching the attention of his director who asked him to co-write an original play. Two months later Forrest and a fellow actor completed PLAYING WITH SHAKESPEARE, which went on to receive success in Amsterdam and also received the honor of representing the Netherlands at the 1994 Cairo International Theatre Festival.
It was while in Egypt, Forrest realized that his love for writing superseded his desire to act and shortly thereafter moved back to the States to purse writing and directing. Within a year after returning, Forrest wrote, directed and produced his second play CUSP, which he staged in San Francisco. Since then, Forrest decided to concentrate more on film and subsequently has written four feature screenplays, sold one short film, and has written, directed and produced two other short films - CALLA LILLY and FAVORITE COLOR PINK, both of which have screened at the Mendocino Film Festival in 2006 and 2007. He recently has completed his latest short film entitled HALLELUJAH, and is currently developing a weekly webisode for the Internet entitled SUNDAYS, about a medley of characters living in a small coastal town.
Forrest lives on the dramatic coast of Northern California with his wife, Samantha and his two boys, Temple and Sequoyah, where he continues to write and make movies.
