Rupert Goold's production of Romeo and Juliet. Both plays came to the Roundhouse in Camden in late 2010. They played Park Avenue Armory in New York in summer 2011. In early 2014 he toured England and performed in Ohio State University as Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew directed by Michael Fentiman. In the summer of 2015 he played Bottom in the RSC/Garsington Opera Company co production of A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Owen Horsley. For winter 2019 he played Mr Hawtrey in the new musical The Boy in the Dress, based on the book by David Walliams, and will return for winter 2021 to play the Police Chief in the new musical The Magician's Elephant based on the book by Kate DiCamillo. Partnership with Alan Cumming He co-wrote and performed with Alan Cumming in the situation comedy, The High Life. Masson and Cumming had met at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1982 where they formed a cult Kelvinside musical double act "Victor and Barry", which they performed on the alternative comedy circuit. They were nominated for a Perrier Award in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1988, played the Donmar Warehouse and toured Australia in 1989, playing the Sydney Opera House. The characters were killed off onstage at the London Palladium in the early 1990s. He is married to singer and 2012 X Factor contestant Melanie Masson. They have two children and live in North London. Recording The soundtrack to the RSC's 2005 production of Twelfth Night with Sianed Jones Forbes Masson recorded a selection of songs he sang in the RSC, on album John Woolf and Friends. Forbes Masson reads a selection of Robert Burns poetry References External links Forbes as Jaques in As You Like It RSC trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iAozWpraJ4 Guardian review of Twelfth Night : https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/dec/14/theatre1 Daily Telegraph review of As You Like It : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/8267640/As-You-Like-It-RSC-Roundhouse-review.html Guardian review of Mince: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/may/08/theatre.artsfeatures Review of Audio Book reading The Last King of Scotland : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/27/audiobooks Living people People from Falkirk Scottish comedy writers Scottish dramatists and playwrights Scottish male stage actors Scottish male television actors Scottish television directors Scottish male comedians 1963 births