Lorna Rose Treen

Lorna Rose Treen is an award-winning character comedian, writer, actor and improviser.

Lorna is very excitingly on the writing team for SNL UK! She has also appeared in a few of the sketches. SNL UK has just been renewed for a second series.

Lorna will soon be seen in upcoming in BBC One’s upcoming series THE RELUCTANT VAMPIRE.

She performed latest live show 24 HOUR DINER PEOPLE at the Edinburgh Fringe – it received rave reviews and had a sold-out extended run. It then enjoyed a sold out run at Soho Theatre in September 2025.

She will be taking her latest WIP – NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL CHARACTERS, to the Edinburgh Fringe this year as well as a UK tour in the Autumn

In 2023, Lorna made her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut at The Pleasance Courtyard with her nonsensical escapist character show – SKIN PIGEON. The reviews were extraordinary, with five stars from The Telegraph, who wrote: “Skin Pigeon is a gloriously daft hour from one of the most exciting young comics around.” She also won the prestigious ‘Dave’s Best Joke of the Year’

Lorna’s BBC R4 comedy series TIME OF THE WEEK has run for two series. She co-wrote with Jonathan Oldfield and Sian Clifford stars.

Lorna became the first ever double award winner at the Funny Women Awards in 2022, when she won both the “Stage Award” and the “Comedy Short Award”.

She also wrote and starred in her hilarious, award-winning short – MY ENTERTAINMENT BADGE and performed her set FILM NOIR at the Funny Women Awards.

Lorna then went on to win Chortle’s coveted Best Newcomer Award in early 2023 and has most recently won Best Alternative Act at the Chortle Awards

Lorna has written for radio, stage and online, including BBC R4, BBC R2, and BBC R4 Extra. She can be heard in Jazz Emu’s THE SOUND OF US of BBC R4, and Katy Wix’s NORA MEADOW’S WEEK OF WELLNESS on BBC R4.

Alongside her award-winning live work, Lorna has made waves with her viral TikTok and Instagram sketches – which have amassed over 2 million likes and millions more views.

She has also appeared in THE EMILY ATACK SHOW for ITV, voiced the Snake in an advert for PETA with Blink Ink with Jessie Cave and  played the lead role in short-film AS I LIVE AND BREATHE (Take the Shot Productions).

FURTHER CLIPS:

My Entertainment Badge (pw: united)

Skin Pigeon (pw: united)

REVIEWS FOR 24 HOUR DINER PEOPLE :

‘Strokes of genius’ – THE TIMES ★★★★
‘a gloriously daft show that is heavily reminiscent of peak-era French and Saunders’ – THE TELEGRAPH ★★★★
‘highly infectious’ – CHORTLE ★★★★
‘Those of us that dined at Lorna’s diner will never be able to erase the depravity from our memories, and we loved every second of it’ – FEST ★★★★
‘This is comedy in its purest form, flash, whimsical, maximalist but balanced in all the right ways’ THE STUDENT ★★★★★

FURTHER REVIEWS:

‘Oddball character-based comedy like no other’– EVENING STANDARD ★★★★★
‘It’s nostalgic, it’s ridiculous, and it’s hilarious’ – LOST IN THEATRELAND ★★★★★
‘Lorna Rose Treen’s debut hour is every bit as special as we were led to believe’ – THE WEE REVIEW ★★★★★
‘Skin Pigeon is a gloriously daft hour from one of the most exciting young comics around’ – TELEGRAPH (Top 5 Comedy Shows 2023) ★★★★★

Lorna Rose Treen is an award-winning character comedian, writer, actor and improviser.

Lorna is very excitingly on the writing team for SNL UK! She has also appeared in a few of the sketches. SNL UK has just been renewed for a second series.

Lorna will soon be seen in upcoming in BBC One’s upcoming series THE RELUCTANT VAMPIRE.

She performed latest live show 24 HOUR DINER PEOPLE at the Edinburgh Fringe – it received rave reviews and had a sold-out extended run. It then enjoyed a sold out run at Soho Theatre in September 2025.

She will be taking her latest WIP – NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL CHARACTERS, to the Edinburgh Fringe this year as well as a UK tour in the Autumn

In 2023, Lorna made her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut at The Pleasance Courtyard with her nonsensical escapist character show – SKIN PIGEON. The reviews were extraordinary, with five stars from The Telegraph, who wrote: “Skin Pigeon is a gloriously daft hour from one of the most exciting young comics around.” She also won the prestigious ‘Dave’s Best Joke of the Year’

Lorna’s BBC R4 comedy series TIME OF THE WEEK has run for two series. She co-wrote with Jonathan Oldfield and Sian Clifford stars.

Lorna became the first ever double award winner at the Funny Women Awards in 2022, when she won both the “Stage Award” and the “Comedy Short Award”.

She also wrote and starred in her hilarious, award-winning short – MY ENTERTAINMENT BADGE and performed her set FILM NOIR at the Funny Women Awards.

Lorna then went on to win Chortle’s coveted Best Newcomer Award in early 2023 and has most recently won Best Alternative Act at the Chortle Awards

Lorna has written for radio, stage and online, including BBC R4, BBC R2, and BBC R4 Extra. She can be heard in Jazz Emu’s THE SOUND OF US of BBC R4, and Katy Wix’s NORA MEADOW’S WEEK OF WELLNESS on BBC R4.

Alongside her award-winning live work, Lorna has made waves with her viral TikTok and Instagram sketches – which have amassed over 2 million likes and millions more views.

She has also appeared in THE EMILY ATACK SHOW for ITV, voiced the Snake in an advert for PETA with Blink Ink with Jessie Cave and  played the lead role in short-film AS I LIVE AND BREATHE (Take the Shot Productions).

FURTHER CLIPS:

My Entertainment Badge (pw: united)

Skin Pigeon (pw: united)

REVIEWS FOR 24 HOUR DINER PEOPLE :

‘Strokes of genius’ – THE TIMES ★★★★
‘a gloriously daft show that is heavily reminiscent of peak-era French and Saunders’ – THE TELEGRAPH ★★★★
‘highly infectious’ – CHORTLE ★★★★
‘Those of us that dined at Lorna’s diner will never be able to erase the depravity from our memories, and we loved every second of it’ – FEST ★★★★
‘This is comedy in its purest form, flash, whimsical, maximalist but balanced in all the right ways’ THE STUDENT ★★★★★

FURTHER REVIEWS:

‘Oddball character-based comedy like no other’– EVENING STANDARD ★★★★★
‘It’s nostalgic, it’s ridiculous, and it’s hilarious’ – LOST IN THEATRELAND ★★★★★
‘Lorna Rose Treen’s debut hour is every bit as special as we were led to believe’ – THE WEE REVIEW ★★★★★
‘Skin Pigeon is a gloriously daft hour from one of the most exciting young comics around’ – TELEGRAPH (Top 5 Comedy Shows 2023) ★★★★★

Lorna Rose Treen is an award-winning character comedian, writer, actor and improviser, whose arrival on the scene has been remarkable.

Lorna recently performed her latest live show 24 HOUR DINER PEOPLE at the Edinburgh Fringe – it received rave reviews and had a sold-out extended run. It then enjoyed a sold out run at Soho Theatre in September 2025.

In 2023, Lorna made her much anticipated Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut at The Pleasance Courtyard with her nonsensical escapist character show – SKIN PIGEON. The reviews were extraordinary, with five stars from The Telegraph, who wrote: “Skin Pigeon is a gloriously daft hour from one of the most exciting young comics around.”  See below for further reviews. She also won the prestigious ‘Dave’s Best Joke of the Fringe’ award.

Lorna became the first ever double award winner at the Funny Women Awards in 2022, when she won both the “Stage Award” and the “Comedy Short Award”. Watch her hilarious, award-winning short here – MY ENTERTAINMENT BADGE.

Lorna won Chortle’s coveted Best Newcomer Award in 2023 and has most recently won Best Alternative Act at the Chortle Awards 2024.

Alongside her award-winning live work, Lorna has made waves with her viral TikTok and Instagram sketches – which have amassed over 2 million likes and millions more views. Watch here.

As an actor, she has appeared in THE EMILY ATACK SHOW for ITV, and voiced the Snake in an advert for PETA with Blink Ink with Jessie Cave. She played the lead role in short-film AS I LIVE AND BREATH (Take the Shot Productions) which is currently doing the festival circuit now.

Lorna has written for radio, stage and online, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, and BBC Radio 4 Extra. She can currently be heard in Jazz Emu’s The Sound of Us of BBC Radio 4, and Katy Wix’s Nora Meadow’s Week of Wellness on BBC Radio 4. Lorna’s BBC Radio 4 comedy series Time of the Week, co-written with Jonathan Oldfield, parodies women’s current affairs and talk shows, and will be broadcast in June.

Her award-winning comedy short was screened at the London Short Film Festival 2023.

Lorna is also a seasoned improvisor, performing with Improvised True Crime Documentary: Criminally Untrue as well as an alumnus of the Improverts, Edinburgh’s longest running improvisation troupe.

Reviews for 24 HOUR DINER PEOPLE: 

“She’s still here and funnier than ever.” Time Out ★★★★

“A gloriously daft show that is heavily reminiscent of peak-era French and Saunders” The Telegraph ★★★★

“Strokes of genius” The Times ★★★★

Reviews for SKIN PIGEON:

“[Lorna] pulled off the unprecedented feat of winning both main awards (for stage and screen work), and her skits have had millions of views on Tiktok. Off the back of all that, her Fringe debut has now sold out its month-long run. Could it possibly live up to expectations? The answer, thankfully, is yes: Skin Pigeon is a gloriously daft hour from one of the most exciting young comics around.”  ✭✭✭✭✭  Telegraph

It’s a wild experience, yet one of the funniest at this year’s Fringe. The result, usually, is part guffaw, part groan – but total pleasure. Since winning the Funny Women award last year, Treen’s Edinburgh show has been highly anticipated. Debuts trailed by such feverish excitement don’t always live up to the hype – but Treen’s does, and then some. ✭✭✭✭✭  The Independent

“Newcomer Lorna Rose Treen has created the biggest buzz so far, with rave reviews from critics, and word-of-mouth plaudits from the public….Skin Pigeon is an oddball character-based comedy like no other. Unless something else even more brilliant comes along, which is not out of the question given the high standard of the Fringe this year, she must be a favourite for another nod when the festival ends later this month.”  ✭✭✭✭✭ Evening Standard

“It is inventive as hell, with much of the joy coming from the simple fact Treen had any of these ideas in the first place. But it’s also the lack of smug fourth well breaking or explaining the overriding concept or even giving us a clue who the real Lorna Rose Treen is or what she sounds like until the very end. She attacks each of these ridiculous scenarios with the intensity of somebody giving her ‘Hamlet’, and her belief pays off – a most excellent fancy.” ✭✭✭✭ Time Out

AWARDS

Chortle’s Best Sketch Award 2024 – Winner
Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2023 – Winner
Chortle Awards’ Best Newcomer 2023 – Winner
Funny Women Awards Stage Award 2022 – Winner
Funny Women Awards Comedy Short Award 2022 – Winner
Leicester Square Theatre’s Sketch-Off 2023 – Second
New Act of the Year 2022 – Finalist
Raze Collective’s Queer Creators 2022