Zoe Norton Lodge is an Australian writer and television presenter.
Zoe Norton Lodge is known for her work on ABC's satirical comedy programs The Hamster Wheel,[1] and The Checkout.[2][3] Norton Lodge, along with Kirsten Drysdale, wrote and presented The Checkout's segment, 'Gendered Marketing,' an analysis of sexism inherent in the way products are advertised,[4][5] and 'What To Reject When You're Expecting,' a series on bogus pregnancy products.[6] She was also a presenter on The Chaser election specials.[7][8] Norton Lodge has also appeared as a guest on Win the Week, Plonk, The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting, The Letdown and The Moodys.
In 2018-19, she was a regular presenter on Triple M,[9] and has also presented on ABC Radio Sydney[10] and Radio National.[11]
In 2018, she co-wrote the Ding Dong I'm Gay web series with Tim Spencer.[12] The series won an Australian Writer’s Guild AWGIE Award in 2021[13]
In 2020 she hosted the ABC show Reputation Rehab with Kirsten Drysdale, looking at the culture around public shame.[14][15][16]
Norton Lodge has published a collection of short stories 'Almost Sincerely'[17][18] and collaborated with her sister Georgia Norton Lodge, an illustrator, on four children's books in the Elizabella series.[19]
In 2023, she co-developed the six-part BBC One comedy series Queen of Oz, starring English comedian Catherine Tate as the scandalous Princess Georgiana, a disgraced member of a fictional British Royal Family sent to rule Australia.[20][21] She also co-wrote the episode titled "They Used to Oink at Me".