Kit Williamson

About Kit

Kit Williamson is an actor, filmmaker, and internet person. He played Ed Gifford on the final two seasons of AMC's Mad Men and wrote, directed, and starred in the Emmy Award-nominated LGBT series EastSiders, which is now available on Netflix worldwide, translated into more than 30 languages.

His other acting credits include episodes of The Good Wife, Odd Mom Out, Public Morals, Numb3rs, Bosch, the Lifetime movie Anatomy of Deception, the NBC Universal movie Ana Maria in Novela Land, and the independent features Retake (Frameline), Kiss Me, Kill Me (Reeling Chicago), and Best Friends Forever (Slamdance). He also starred in two seasons of the viral hit web series Hipsterhood. He's also written scripted pilots for CBS and Super Deluxe. And he's fun at parties.

Williamson was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, and left home at 16 to study acting and writing at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. He began his career on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated revival of Talk Radio with Liev Schreiber while he was a junior at Fordham University, and went on to receive his M.F.A. in playwriting from UCLA.

He has received a number of awards for his work, including The Playwrights First Award, the Fred Forpes Fellowship at UCLA, and a Daytime Emmy nomination for his series, EastSiders. His plays have been produced off-Broadway at Theatre Row, at the National MFA Playwriting Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and at UCLA, Fordham University, and The University of Iowa.

Williamson also runs a boutique branded content production company with his husband that specializes in the LGBT market.