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Shawn Hitchins is a gay Toronto-based comedian, writer, and actor. He is known for his red hair and his experience donating sperm to a lesbian couple.

Early life
Hitchins was born in Egypt, Ontario. In 2000, Hitchins attended an acting program at George Brown College.

Career
Hitchins spent a summer performing in with the drag trio 'B' Girls in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Hitchins debuted a one-man show entitled Survival of the Fiercest at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he made an offhand joke about the need for redheads to have a “Ginger Pride Day.” In 2015, he returned to Edinburgh to host the Ginger Pride march in Edinburgh, Scotland which gained media attention and now also takes place in Plymouth, England and Breda, Holland.

In 2015, Hitchins wrote, directed, produced in a one-person show called Ginger Nation which debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show recounts Hitchins' experience donating sperm to a lesbian couple as well has memories from adolescence, brushes with celebrity, and pride in his ginger hair. It received unprecedented media coverage for the festival and the show was later brought to Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In 2016, Hitchins adapted it into a documentary film which will be screened during San Francisco’s 2018 SFIndiefest. Huffington Post described it as "vastly entertaining."

Ginger Nation received top hit at the 25th Atlantic Fringe Festival.

In 2017, Hitchins released a book

Personal Life
Hitchins welcomed a daughter after becoming a sperm donor for two close lesbian friends.

Books

 * (Humor)

Documentary

 * 2016: Shawn Hitchins: Ginger Nation - also writer, producer, collaborating director

Films

 * 2010: The Con Artist - Metrosexual

TV Mini-Series

 * 2008: The Trojan Horse - Bellboy

TV Series

 * 2009-2010: 1 Girl 5 Gays - Himself
 * 2004: Wild Card - The FedEd Guy