Jim Kitson

Jim Kitson was born in Newport in South Wales but has lived in the North East for most of his life.

Theatre credits include: The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios); Pitmen Painters (New Vic Theatre); Grapes of Wrath (Nottingham Playhouse/Royal and Derngate/West Yorkshire Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk/National Theatre); Richard III, King John, Tyneside Tales (Royal Shakespeare Company); To Kill A Mockingbird (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Grapes of Wrath (West Yorkshire Playhouse) ; A Walk On Part: The Slow Fall Of New Labour (Soho Theatre); What Happened Is This (Tron, Glasgow); Noir, The Boy On The Swing, The Taxi Driver’s Daughter, 13.1 (Live Theatre, Newcastle); Cooking With Elvis, Office Party (Hull Truck); Son Of Man, Animal Farm, Edmond, Glengarry Glen Ross (Northern Stage); Treasure Island, The Gift And The Glory (Dukes, Lancaster); Great Expectations (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); and The New Tenant (Hungarian State Theatre, Cluj, Romania).

Television credits include: Inspector George Gently (Company Pictures for BBC), Vera (ITV Studios), Emmerdale (Yorkshire TV), Joe Maddison’s War (Mammoth Productions for ITV1), Tracy Beaker Returns (CBBC) and Byker Grove (Zenith Entertainment for BBC)