ABOUT

Holly is a Performance-Maker, Choreographer, Movement Director and Performer with a background spanning Theatre, Dance, Music and Live Art.

Concerned with re-claiming space - as a queer, female artist who grew up on benefits - she likes making anarchic work that seriously questions the traditional ways we’re permitted to create and consume art. Holly specialises in devised, site-specific, immersive and inter-disciplinary performance for unusual spaces and audiences.

A recipient of the Pleasance Futures ‘National Partnerships’ Award 2022 with Bristol Old Vic, Holly recently redeveloped her solo show OPAL FRUITS; about the fetishisation of working class narratives in the arts. In 2020 she developed I, OBJECT; a site-specific film installation created with residents on the Knowle West council estate in Bristol. Holly co-created, choreographs and co-directs the Immersive Great Gatsby (2015), the longest-running immersive show in the UK, transferring to London’s West End and internationally to Brussels, South Korea and New York.

Previous acclaim includes a Scotsman Fringe First Award & MTN Innovation Award for Fine Chisel’s Dumbstruck (2013); ThreeWeeks Editors' Award for Fine Chisel’s Edinburgh Season (2012); Best Collective Award for The Flanagan Collective’s Adelaide Season (2016); York Culture Awards ‘Best Production’ and Vault Festival ‘Outstanding Contribution’ Awards for The Great Gatsby (2017).