Katie Norris is a stand-up comedian, actress and singer.
In 2023 Katie won the Musical Comedy Awards and was a semi-finalist at the BBC New Comedy Awards 2023. In 2024 she debuted her first solo hour, Farm Fatale, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2024 to widespread acclaim. She sold out her entire run and added extra shows and was nominated for the NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy.
Katie is also one-half of the Edinburgh cult-favourites Norris & Parker, who regularly play to packed houses and have featured in The Guardian’s top 10 best Comedy Shows of the Year, and have been top picks in The Guardian, The Evening Standard and The Independent.
As an actor, Katie is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4, having appeared on The Now Show, DMs are Open and Newsjack. Her TV credits include Doctors (BBC One), an unannounced Channel 4 pilot, and theatre credits including; The Demolitian Man (Bolton Octagon), Doctor Faustus (The Royal Exchange), Rookery Nook (Theatre by the Lake), The Comedy of Errors (Theatre by the Lake), Dracula (Theatre by the Lake), Richard III (Godot’s Watch, Rosemary Branch Theatre), and The Poda Poda Collective (Hull Truck Theatre).
“What an intense, unpredictable and hilarious show this is…brough to exhilarating life by a sensational performance that it takes on an epic life”
★★★★
Steve Bennett, Chortle
“Wonderfully batty and unapologetic… A solo debut to cherish”
★★★★
The Guardian
“The poise she displays with her expressive comic physicality, well, it’s a sublime witch’s brew of ingredients for a first-rate debut”
★★★★
Jay Richardson, Scotsman