Lance Norris
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Lance Norris (born August 9th, 1962) is an actor/writer/director/stand-up comic/mentalist.
Norris was born in Des Moines, Iowa and attended Whitman College where he was a wrestler and rugby player. He also attended Emerson College where he wrestled under US Team Coach Jim Peckham.
He has played small roles in Mystic River, Glory, Be Cool and With Honors, was Squeers in the West Coast Premiere of the 8 and half hour long play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and he played a SWAT team leader on an episode of the Fox TV series "Against The Law".
Norris co-hosted a morning show for Boston's WBCN and WZLX for almost 20 years. He collected some of his radio scripts as the book “Ask A Bitter Man”. He was also a consultant for the shortlived "Mike O'Malley Show" on NBC, and submitted material for the Emmy-nominated "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" on Comedy Central. He was listed as a Contributing Editor in one issue of the National Lampoon, in 1994.
Norris has written a number of plays including 8 Gr8 D8s and JWL., and has registered over 100 songs with Old Boston Publishing (BMI) and Dutchco Music (BMI).
Norris is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts and a former cultural lecturer at the Chengdu University of Science and Technology in the People’s Republic of China. He also teaches at the Pembroke Hospital in Pembroke, MA.
Norris lives on the coast, south of Boston, with his wife Amy and their four children. As of 2006 he was teaching acting workshops at Maura Tighe Casting in Boston, MA and is available as a mentalist for corporate events. He is also on the board of directors for the Plymouth Independent Film Festival.
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[edit] Televised performances
- 20/20 (November 26, 2001)
- Saturday Night Live (1994)
- America’s Funniest People (October 17, 1993)
- Politically Incorrect (1994)
- The Mike O’Malley Show (1999)
- Against The Law (1990)
- The Movie Loft (2001)
[edit] Feature films
- Mystic River (2003)
- Anathema (2003)
- Staying Awake (2005)
- Be Cool (2004)
- The Mouse (1996)
- With Honors (1994)
- Glory (1989)
[edit] Discography
- Meat The Stools (1989)
- Sophomore Slump (1990)
- Khaki (1990)
- Soft as a Grape (1991)
- The Unplayable Lie (1992)
- X-mas With The Stools (1994)
- All of Mao's Good Little Children Sing The Songs of Lance Norris (1995)
- Draconian Messures (1998)
- Nine Inch Jails (2000)
- Samples- A Musical Ouvre-View of The Stools (2004)
[edit] Collected work
- Ask A Bitter Man Vol. 1“, 1992, Dutchco Press. ISBN 1-4116-2646-X
