About Joz
Joz Norris is an acclaimed writer, performer and, indeed, writer-performer. He makes unusual shows for the Edinburgh Fringe including the smash hit 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, the Chortle Award for Best Music & Variety Act, and longlisted for the Edinburgh Comedy Award) and Blink (one of the Evening Standard’s Top 20 comedy shows of 2022, and sponsored by Arts Council England), both of which transferred to multiple runs at Soho Theatre.
In 2020 he adapted You Build The Thing You Think You Are, which would have been a new live show, into a feature film streamed online which was acclaimed as one of the comedy highlights of the year by both the Guardian and the Telegraph.
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 and The Train At Platform 4.
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 (including 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 The Royle Family’s Ralf Little) have been Official Selections and award-winners at film festivals worldwide, and his sitcom scripts have been staged to acclaim at live readings at Soho Theatre, King’s Place and the Pleasance. He co-runs, programmes and hosts the smash hit short film and new writing night Eggbox at the Pleasance in London, and his own scripts have been longlisted or nominated for comedy writing awards including the David Nobbs Memorial Trust New Comedy Writing Award and the Shortcom Sitcom Writing mission.
He has also written sketches for BBC Radio 4’s award-winning The Skewer and the BBC’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 shows by including Cerys Bradley’s Neurodiverse Review Award-winning debut show Sportsperson and Edy Hurst’s Wonderfull Discoverie Of Witches In The Countie Of Himself, which premiered at the Lowry before embarking on a nationwide tour. He has worked as a director, creative consultant or script consultant for writers and artists including Ben Target; Jon Brittain; Edy Hurst; Bec Hill; Lulu Popplewell; Katie Pritchard; Rosalie Minnitt; Ted Hill and many more, and is currently directing shows from the Mayor & His Daughter, Andy Barr, Lulu Popplewell and Tara Boland.
