Daniel John Kitson

Daniel John Kitson (born 2 July 1977) is an English comedian, actor, performer and writer. He was born in Denby Dale, the son of a primary school headteacher mother and a lecturer father, and was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College before studying drama at Roehampton Institute, now known as the University of Roehampton.

Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was nominated for the 2001 Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his show Love, Innocence and the Word Cock before winning it in 2002 for the show Something. Alongside stand-up he has written and performed "story shows", beginning with A Made Up Story in 2003, followed by Stories For the Wobbly-Hearted (2005) and C-90 (2006), the latter awarded both a Fringe First and The Stage Acting Award for Best Solo Show. His show It's The Fireworks Talking won the Barry Award at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Over the following years Kitson toured numerous shows, including The Impotent Fury of the Privileged (2008), 66A Church Road, We Are Gathered Here, The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church, Where Once Was Wonder (2012) and After the Beginning. Before the End (2013). He debuted the play Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought at Liverpool Everyman in 2016 and, in 2017, performed his first stand-up in over four years with Something Other Than Everything. In 2019 he staged Keep at the Battersea Arts Centre, reading aloud a catalogued list of 20,000 objects in his home, and in 2020 toured Dot. Dot. Dot. to venues during the COVID-19 pandemic, performing without a live audience but streamed to online ticket-holders.