Life and Career
Norris was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He was a wrestler and rugby player at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. He also attended Emerson College where he wrestled under US Team Coach Jim Peckham.
He has appeared in the films 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 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 short-lived Mike O'Malley Show on NBC, and wrote for the Emmy-nominated Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher on Comedy Central and Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update on NBC. 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 Amherst and a former cultural lecturer at the Chengdu University of Science and Technology in the People's Republic of China.
Norris lives on the coast, south with five 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 the Boston, MA area theatre critic for playshakespeare.com (the internet's largest free resource for William Shakespeare) and sits on the board of directors for the Plymouth Independent Film Festival.
His band, Lance Norris and The Dog Track Gravy, are currently active in the Northeast college and club market.
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