Ben Forrest

Passionate about designing memorable experiences across mediums and bringing them to life.

Curating experiences across physical and digital mediums to bring delight to people and businesses.

Stakeholder management

Worked alongside partners from different disciplines to a common goal whilst aligning on end user and business needs.

Master planning

Utilise research and insights to plan the top level design of an experience (both physical and digital) to keep goals aligned.

Experience strategy

Create and maintain effective roadmaps to help keep momentum in the experience vision and to increase repeat business.

Research

Utilise different methodologies (active and passive) to understand more deeply what the needs of the end user and business are.

Project management

Maintain budgets, staffing and programmes of work to generate momentum and reach business delivery goals.

Team leadership

Mentored and led large and small-sized teams to foster a positive working environment and to help nurture talent.

Active member of the industry, both on and off stage, to help make theatre more accessible to all.

Responsible for helping craft a season programme that engages audiences and provides financial stability.

Responsible for curating the website booking and engagement tools, as well as other digital touchpoints around the theatre.