About Avalon Presents Fringe Comedy Previews: Katie Norris and Rob Auton

An evening of two shows back-to-back (with an interval in-between) from stand-up comedians Katie Norris and Rob Auton.

KATIE NORRIS

Katie Norris is a stand-up comedian, actress, singer. and one half of Edinburgh cult-favourites, Norris & Parker.

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.

4 Stars

Wonderfully batty and unapologetic… A solo debut to cherish.

The Guardian

4 Stars

The poise she displays with her expressive comic physicality, well, it’s a sublime witch’s brew of ingredients for a first-rate debut.

The Scotsman

ROB AUTON

Rob Auton released his book I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things with Harper Collins in Autumn of 2021 to critical acclaim.

He has written seven five-star rated Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows, and has performed his unique brand of comedy on The Russell Howard Hour (Sky One) and on Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central). The latter set went viral on Facebook with 4.7m views and couniting.

Rob has had three collections of writing and illustrations published by Burning Eye books and has had his poetry turned into short films and shown on Channel 4.

Rob made his television acting debut as a corduroy jacket wearing poet in ITV’s Cold Feet 2018. Since then, he performed in series 2 of The End of The F***ing World (Netflix/Channel 4), and Miracle Workers (TBS). Rob also starred in and co-wrote the short film The Peamaster which was nominated for best short film at the Milan Film Festival. Rob was a finalist for The Arts Foundation Spoken Word Award and a winner of a Three Weeks Editors Award. He is a regular poet at Bang Said the Gun.

Rob's podcast, The Rob Auton Daily Podcast took home The Best Daily Podcast Award at the 2020 British Podcast Awards.

0 Stars

Brilliant.

Stewart Lee

0 Stars

Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch.

The Independent