[1] After leaving school, Norvill auditioned for the National Institute of Dramatic Art, but was not accepted, so she tried out for the PACT Centre for Emerging Artists' imPACT ensemble in 2003, also in Sydney.
[1] In 2011, Norvill had her first big stage role, as Ophelia, playing opposite Ewen Leslie as Hamlet in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production, directed by Simon Phillips.
[1] A year after meeting Kip Williams when playing in a small indie production, the two participated in a Sydney Theatre Company (STC) workshop run by UK director Declan Donnellan, the first of several collaborations.
Their advocacy led the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) to commission a survey about these issues, and in March 2018 the pair hosted the inaugural Safe Theatres Forum.
[9] On 30 November 2017, as Norvill was in the middle of the Three Sisters season, The Daily Telegraph published a front-page article alleging that Rush engaged in "inappropriate behaviour" on stage with a co-star during the STC's 2015 production of King Lear.
[10] Rush denied the allegations and in December filed a defamation suit with the Federal Court against Nationwide News, charging that the Telegraph had "made false, pejorative and demeaning claims".
[13] The trial and the media coverage of it took its toll on Norvill, causing her to withdraw from a starring role in Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Mike Leigh's comedy Abigail's Party, due to open in March 2018.