English playwright and comedian Tim Fountain was BOTD in 1967. Born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, he was raised in West Ardsley and studied at Hull University. He began a career as a playwright, rising to public attention with Resident Alien, his 1999 one-man show about the life and writings of queer raconteur Quentin Crisp. Originally performed in London and starring Bette Bourne, it transferred successfully for New York, winning two OBIE Awards, followed by a world tour and a BBC radio serialisation. Fountain published a published a memoir of Crisp in 2002, followed by the play Julie Burchill is Away, a portrait of the controversial newspaper columnist, and a stage adaptation of Toby Young’s memoir How To Lose Friends and Alienate People. In 2004, he wrote and starred in a one-man show Sex Addict, discussing gay hook-up culture and public perceptions of gay male promiscuity, and asking his audience to select his next sexual partner from gay hook-up website Gaydar. His other stage works include an adaptation of John Schlesinger‘s gay-themed film Midnight Cowboy; Rock, a portrait of closeted actor Rock Hudson and his predatory agent Henry Willson; and Arab Spring, a comedy about sex tourism in Cairo during the 2011 civil unrest in Egypt. He also directed the London premiere of the adult comedy show Puppetry of the Penis, featuring a series of well-endowed actors manipulating their genitals into origami shapes. His published works include Rude Britannia, a book the sexual habits of the English, and Dandy in the Underworld, a biography of bisexual painter and socialite Sebastian Horsley. Loudly and apologetically gay since forever, he surprised many by having a brief (but well-publicised) affair with lesbian comedian Jackie Clune. Fountain is in a relationship with fellow comedian Mr Boo, chronicling their journeys through France on their joint YouTube channel Me and Mon Ami.