About Joz
Joz Norris is an acclaimed writer, performer and, indeed, writer-performer. He makes unusual shows for the Edinburgh Fringe including the critically acclaimed sellout smash hits Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad. (winner of the Comedians’ Choice Award for Best Show, nominee for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality and the Chortle Award for Best Music & Variety Act) and You Wait. Time Passes. (winner of the WoW Award for Best Comedy, first runner-up for the NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy, nominee for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality). His last three shows have all transferred to Soho Theatre where they have played multiple runs.
His sitcom script The Happiness Chain was recently produced as a crowdfunded TV pilot directed by Ben Kent after being nominated for the David Nobbs Memorial Trust New Comedy Writing Award and the Shortcom Sitcom Writing Competition. His original sitcom for BBC Radio 4, The Dream Factory, co-written with Miranda Holms, was a radio pick of the week in the Observer, the Times, the Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and was featured on Radio 4’s Comedy of the Week podcast, and his Radio 4 comedy special A Small Talk On Small Talk was a Guardian Audio Pick of the Week. He was also the co-host and co-creator of BBC Radio 4’s Useless Millennials with Roxy Dunn, and has guest starred in Radio 4’s The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty; The Now Show; The Train At Platform 4 and Mr Cameron Goes To Ukraine.
His sitcom collaboration with Ed Aczel, Ed & Joz’s Heist Movie, was produced as a non-broadcast pilot by Tiger Aspect. His short films and webseries include Dog House, directed by Miranda Holms, which won Best Comedy Short at the UK Film Awards; The Baby, a horror-art-comedy collaboration with Lucy Pearman, Sam Nicoresti & Lottie Bowater; and The Girl Whisperer, a webseries co-written by and co-starring Ralf Little, which was nominated for multiple awards at the LA Webseries Festival. With Miranda he co-runs, programmes and hosts the smash hit short film and new writing night Eggbox at the Pleasance in London, which showcases new work from the scripted comedy community.
He has also written sketches for BBC Radio 4’s award-winning The Skewer and CBBC’s Horrible Science and is a regular contributor to John-Luke Roberts’ BBC Audio Drama Award-winning Sound Heap podcast, and Rosie Holt’s current affairs podcast NonCensored. He has appeared on podcasts including RHLSTP and Nobody Panic, and appeared in sketches for TV programmes on BBC Three, Channel 4, Comedy Central, ITV2 and Dave.
He is a highly in-demand live comedy director, having directed award-winning, award-nominated and critically acclaimed shows by Cerys Bradley; Edy Hurst; The Mayor & His Daughter; Tara Boland; Andy Barr and Lulu Popplewell. He has worked as a director, creative consultant or script consultant for writers and artists including Ben Target; Ayoade Bamgboye; Jon Brittain; Bec Hill; Rosalie Minnitt; Katie Pritchard; Ted Hill and many more, and is currently directing the solo debut shows of Anna Leong Brophy (Egg) and Emmeline Downie (It Gets Worse).
