Joz Norris
Writer. Actor. Comedian. Maker of Stuff.
Welcome to the website of writer, performer and fool Joz Norris. Make yourself at home! (No need to remove your shoes, you do you). Here you can watch my films and videos, listen to my radio programmes and podcasts, read my news and essays, and delve into my archive of past projects.
For those who just want a quick update on what I’m currently up to, I am presently:
- Developing a brand new live show, You Wait. Time Passes, which is playing the Edinburgh Fringe in August at Pleasance, and playing several arts and comedy festivals in the lead-up, including the Buxton and Berlin Fringes.
- Launching a crowdfunded sitcom pilot, Just Be Happy, which explores the pursuit of happiness and was nominated or longlisted for several writing awards in 2023-4.
- Working on a scripted comedy audio project with Desiree Burch and Miranda Holms about cross-cultural differences and entrepreneurship
- Curating, programming and hosting the smash hit short film and new writing night Eggbox at the Pleasance Theatre in London
- Directing five live shows at EdFringe 2025, by Edy Hurst, the Mayor & His Daughter, Lulu Popplewell, Andy Barr and Tara Boland
- Writing on the brand new CBBC show Horrible Science
- Co-writing a smash hit webseries about Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and various other cult fandoms
- Co-writing an audio podcast project about a spooky island
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Past Projects
Welcome to the Archive! Here you can find out a bit more about every major project I’ve authored over the last 10 years, from live shows to short films to radio shows and so on. If you’re a long-time fan then maybe you’ll remember some of these! And if you’ve found my work more recently, then perhaps it’ll be interesting to go back and see what you’ve missed. Where possible, I’ve included links to be able to see the project itself. Enjoy!
Tape 183: I Will Keep Playing
A couple of warnings up top in this post – firstly, I have a feeling this will be a bit of a ramble through a lot of quite messy, disconnected ideas and I’m not all that confident of what kind of sense I’ll be able to make out of them. Apologies in advance if this […]
Tape 182: Designing A Poster
A while ago I did a deep dive into the history of my own poster designs for all my old shows, from the good to the deeply embarrassing (I actually left out the poster for my first ever work-in-progress show, because it was TOO embarrassing, but maybe that’ll appear in a future newsletter one day). I mentioned […]
Tape 181: Update On The Happiness Chain
I’ve been thinking about when comedy comperes say “And now ladies and gentlemen, please go wild and crazy and welcome to the stage…” when they introduce an act. It really makes me laugh. The sentence “Please go wild and crazy” is like the linguistic equivalent of an optical illusion, and whenever I hear it as […]