Forrest McClendon is an American stage actor, singer and professor.
[2] McClendon received his first formal singing lessons from Lewis Cisto, a teacher in the Norwalk High School music department.
[2] He also received lessons from Betty Jones, a Connecticut opera singer, and Cassandra Eaton, the music minister of Grace Baptist Church in Norwalk.
[4] The role led to McClendon's first Tony Award nomination in May 2011 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
[2][6] In 2011, McClendon performed in a regional production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Two Rivers Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey.