Fresh off the back of three critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringes, Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe winner Lorna Rose Treen is heading out on her debut tour with Now That’s What I Call Characters doing what she does best - a silly and joyful hour of nonsense character comedy.
Lorna has been pretending to be other people for fun since she could dress herself, and her characters often spring from skewering how women are portrayed on screen. Mining the nostalgic world of TV, film and music tropes - everything from Twin Peaks and Love Actually to Sabrina Carpenter and Normal People - she invites audiences inside a world of daft, surreal and whimsical characters. She is now bringing that world to venues across the UK for the first time. Now That’s What I Call Character is a collection of the best sketches from her critically-acclaimed live shows, plus some new characters too. The show is directed by her long-time collaborator Jonathan Oldfield (BBC New Comedian Finalist 2024, Frankie Monroe, Lucy Pearman).
Alongside the show, Treen has been working on series two of her acclaimed parody radio programme Time of the Week for BBC Radio 4 – co-created with Jonathan Oldfield and starring Sian Clifford (Fleabag) – which recently won British Comedy Guide’s Best Radio Sketch Show 2024 and has been nominated for the ARIA’s Best Comedy Award 2025.
Lorna Rose Treen is an award-winning comedian, actor, improviser and writer from Redditch, West Midlands, now based in London. Her 2023 debut character comedy show Skin Pigeon sold out in a week, received 8+ five-star reviews, two sell-out transfers to Soho Theatre, a second sell-out Fringe run in 2024, and won Dave’s Best Joke of the Fringe. It was named one of The Telegraph’s Top 5 Comedy Shows of 2023. Her follow-up 24 Hour Diner People sold out 30 shows at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe (the full run plus five extra shows), had a Soho Theatre main house transfer, was nominated for The Comedians’ Choice Awards, received 14 reviews of four stars or higher, and was named one of The New York Times’ Most Buzzy Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Lorna has a thriving online following with over 180,000 Instagram followers and 141,000 TikTok followers, where her viral parody street interviews and sketch content which has regularly culminated in over a 100 million views online.
Lorna’s voice can also be heard in The Sound of Us (Jazz Emu, BBC R4), Nora Meadows’ Week of Wellness (Katy Wix, BBC R4), and on-screen appearances include Goblin Solutions (Channel 4), The Emily Atack Show (ITV), and BBC Three’s New Comedy Awards. Lorna is also a founding member of the hit improvised true crime mockumentary show Criminally Untrue.
Tour dates: For tickets visit www.countrymileproductions.co.uk - on general sale September 26 at 10am
Sign up to Country Mile Productions’ mailing list for pre-sale - Presale September 25 at 10am
Thu 19 March 2026 Glasgow Òran Mór (Glasgow International Comedy Festival)
Fri 20 March 2026 Edinburgh Monkey Barrel Comedy
Sat 21 March 2026 Newcastle The Stand Comedy Club
Tue 24 March 2026 Leeds Hyde Park Book Club
Thu 26 March 2026 Manchester Fairfield Social Club
Sat 28 March 2026 Birmingham Glee Club
Tue 31 March 2026 Dublin Whelan’s
Thu 2 April 2026 Belfast MAC
Wed 8 April 2026 Norwich Arts Centre
Thu 9 April 2026 Brighton Komedia
Thu 23 April 2026 Oxford Glee Club
Fri 24 April 2026 Bristol The Wardrobe Theatre
Sat 25 April 2026 Exeter Phoenix
Tue 28 April 2026 Canterbury The Marlowe Theatre
Wed 29 April 2026 Margate Where Else?
Thu 7 May 2026 London Leicester Square Theatre
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