Career
Forsberg is known for directing films such as The Late Great Planet Earth and Parable, a film produced for the 1964 New York World"s Fair. Parable portrayed humanity as a traveling circus and Jesus Christ as a circus clown. This marked a new depiction of Christ and inspired the musical Godspell.
Parable went on to be honored at Cannes, the Edinburgh Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.
On June 8, 2013, the University of California, Los Angeles Film and Television Archive offered a retrospective of the works of Rolf Forsberg titled The Outre World of Rolf Forsberg. A Tenth of an Inch Makes The Difference – Performer"s Arena, Chicago (1984)
Revival – Pasadena Playhouse Studio (1973)
The Dybbuk Between Two Worlds – Court Theatre (Chicago) (1962)
A Tenth of an Inch makes the Difference – New York (1961)
The Tempestoff-Broadway (1959)
The Tempest – San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (1958)
Oedipus Rex – Court Theatre (Chicago) (1960)
Round Dance – Playwrights, Chicago (1955)
Shakuntala – Playwrights, Chicago (1954)
The Trojan Women by Euripides – Court Theatre (Chicago) (1956)
Rashomon – Chicago (1953)
Moods From Shakespeare, United States of America Tour (1944–1953).
