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| Shawn Hitchins | |
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Shawn Hitchins is a gay Toronto-based comedian, [1] author, and actor. He is known for his red hair and for sharing his experience as a sperm donor to a lesbian couple. [2]
Hitchins was born in Egypt, Ontario. [3] In 2000, Hitchins briefly attended an acting program at George Brown College. [4]
In 2005, Hitchins spent a summer performing in with the drag trio The B-Girlz in Provincetown, Massachusetts. [5]
In 2010, Hitchins appeared as a panelist on MTV (Canada) 1 Girl 5 Gays .
In 2011, Hitchins debuted his first one-man show called Survival of the Fiercest at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he made an offhand joke about the need for redheads to have a "Ginger Pride Walk." [6] In 2013, he returned to the UK to host the Ginger Pride Walk in Edinburgh, Scotland which gained international media attention on BBC News, [7] The Guardian, [8] CNN, [9] Raidió Teilifís Éireann, [10] The Globe and Mail. [11]
In 2013, Hitchins debut his second one-man show called Ginger Nation at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [12] The show recounts Hitchins' experience donating sperm to a lesbian couple as well as memories from adolescence, brushes with celebrity, and pride in his ginger hair. It received unprecedented media coverage [13] for the festival and the show was later brought to Canada, the United States. [13] In 2015, Ginger Nation received top hit at the 25th Atlantic Fringe Festival. [14] In 2016, Hitchins adapted the live show into a concert film, which screened at the 2017 InsideOut Film and Video Festival, [15] the 2017 Cucalorus Film Festival, [16] and the 2018 SF Indiefest. [17] Huffington Post described the film as "vastly entertaining." [17]
In 2017, Hitchins released his debut memoir A Brief History of Oversharing, [18] published by ECW Press.
In 2012, Hitchins welcomed a daughter after becoming a sperm donor for two close lesbian friends. [2]
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