The Live Show and Award Winning Book

Hilarious. Moving. Completely true.

Award-winning actor, bestselling author and producer of Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim — described by theatre critic Alan Chadwick as “Scottish theatre’s greatest success story of recent times” — Scott Kyle has built an extraordinary career across theatre, film and television.

But long before any of that, he was Child 305106 — a number in Scotland’s care system, trying to work out where he belonged.

How do you work out who you are when you’ve spent most of your life trying to work out where you belong?

Growing up in Glasgow, Scott’s childhood was shaped by poverty, violence, sectarianism and foster care. Yet from those beginnings came an extraordinary and often unlikely journey to stages and film sets around the world, working alongside Hollywood stars and receiving acting awards across both stage and screen — including The Stage Award for Acting Excellence and Best Actor at the HB Film Festival — before eventually coming full circle to become a foster carer himself.

And very little of it went according to plan.

There have been extraordinary highs, spectacular mistakes, unlikely friendships, failures, second chances and moments so ridiculous they could only be true.

But underneath the laughter are questions most of us have asked ourselves:

Who am I? Where do I belong? And what am I actually supposed to do with my life?

In It’s Not Where You Start, Scott takes audiences on a funny, candid and deeply personal journey through the people, places and unexpected moments that shaped the person he eventually became.

From Child 305106 to film and television sets; from the extraordinary rise, fall and return of Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim to becoming a bestselling author; and ultimately from being a child in care to caring for children himself, Scott discovers that sometimes the things that go wrong tell us more about who we are than the things that go right.

Performed live using storytelling, photographs, film and award-winning animation, It’s Not Where You Start moves from laugh-out-loud stories to moments of remarkable honesty.

This isn’t a story about having all the answers.

It’s about spending a lifetime looking for them.

Funny, surprising, poignant and ultimately uplifting, it’s a show for anyone who has ever questioned where they belong, changed direction, started again — or wondered whether they’re actually doing what they’re supposed to be doing with their life.

From foster care — Child 305106 — to foster carer.

Because sometimes you have to travel a very long way to discover who you were all along.