Emma Holland

Emma Holland
Holland at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Born1995 or 1996
Sale, Victoria, Australia
Alma materAustralian National University (2016)
Occupations
  • Comedian
  • writer
  • collage artist
  • photographer[1]
Years active2018–present

Emma Holland is an Australian comedian, artist, and writer.

Life

Holland was born in Sale, Gippsland, Victoria and grew up in Bandung, Indonesia and Canberra, Australia.[2][3][4] She graduated in 2016 from the Australian National University with a degree in art.[5]

In 2018, Holland was a runner-up in the Raw Comedy National Grand Final.[3][6] The next year, Holland debuted her first solo show, Dolly Doctor Strangelove, at the Canberra Comedy Festival.[5] In 2020, Holland performed in Canberra with her show Fine Art.[7]

She presented her stand-up show Dreamer in the Mist at the 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF),[3] and in 2023, Holland's show Save The Orangutans was nominated for outstanding show at the festival.[8] Holland performed her solo show Here Comes Mr. Forehead at the 2024 MICF,[9][10] as well as Emma's Debutante with Frankie McNair.[11][12] She also travelled to and performed at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, with a show about growing up in Indonesia.[13][14][15]

Holland has also appeared on and written for various television shows, including The Cheap Seats (where she has often been a fill-in co-host), Have You Been Paying Attention?, 7 Days, and Thank God You're Here.[16][3][17][18][19] Her show Fine Art was also commissioned for television in 2024 by the ABC as part of its Fresh Blood 3 initiative.[20] In 2025, she appeared as a contestant on and was the winner of the fourth season of Taskmaster Australia.

As of 2025, Holland is represented by Jubilee Street Management.[4]

In 2025, Holland released her debut stand-up special Here Comes Mr. Forehead.[21][22][23][24]

Don't Touch My Trinkets, a five-city Australian comedy festival stand-up tour began in February 2025.[25] In 2025 she appeared as a contestant on Claire Hooper's House of Games.[26]

References

  1. ↑ Official website
  2. ↑ Personal statement on The Cheap Seats, Ch. 10, 7 July 2026
  3. 1 2 3 4 Casey, Mia (16 March 2023). "Emma Holland brings Save the Orangutans to Comedy Festival this April". Beat Magazine. Beat. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  4. 1 2 "Bio". Emma Holland. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Stand Up Comedy with Steven J Whiteley and Emma Holland". Corporate Keys. 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  6. ↑ Keioskie, Luke (16 April 2018). "Canberra comedian smashes it at final". Out in Canberra. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  7. ↑ "Emma Holland – Fine Art". BMA Mag. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  8. ↑ "EMMA HOLLAND: Here Comes Mr Forehead live at the Newcastle Comedy Club". Newcastle Live!. 27 September 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  9. ↑ Bennett, Steve (4 April 2024). "Emma Holland: Here Comes Mr. Forehead". Chortle. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  10. ↑ Nair, Sonia (3 April 2024). "Surreal and lewd (and sometimes nude): This year's comedy festival is off to a strong start". The Age. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  11. ↑ McCarthy, Sean L. (1 April 2024). "Emma Holland and Frankie McNair: "Emma's Debutante" at Melbourne 2024". The Comic's Comic. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  12. ↑ Billy, August (1 April 2021). "'Emma's Debutante': the comedy show that feels like a chaotic live-action soap opera". Beat Magazine. Beat. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  13. ↑ "Emma Holland: Aug 2024 16:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker Three), Edinburgh Fringe". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  14. ↑ Davies, Ashley; Hepburn, David; Richardson, Jay (19 August 2024). "Fringe comedy reviews: Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle; + more". The Scotsman. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  15. ↑ Watson, Meg (15 August 2024). "From Baby Reindeer to Nanette: How Edinburgh makes or breaks comedians". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  16. ↑ "Thank God You're Here on 10 welcomes Emma Holland". August 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  17. ↑ "Emma Holland". The Sit Down Comedy Club. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  18. ↑ Perry, Kevin (17 July 2023). "PETER HELLIAR and EMMA HOLLAND special guests this week on HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION?". TV Blackbox. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  19. ↑ "Have Glenn, Anne, Emma, Sam And Ed Been Paying Attention?". Paramount. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  20. ↑ Lindorff, Aimée (2 April 2024). "Meet the Teams Behind Fresh Blood 3 – Part 2". Screen Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  21. ↑ "Welcome to my sick and twisted mind I'm releasing my first ever comedy special 'Here Comes Mr. Forehead' next Monday at 7pm. It's a lot of fun and I wear a wizards hat in a bit of it. It's directed by my friend Bec Metcalf who is brilliant and smart and really got the whole vibe I was going for There's a link in my bio to the YouTube premiere, you can click the bell to remind you it's happening because I know for a fact you all have ADHD". Instagram. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  22. ↑ "Emma Holland brings 'Here Comes Mr Forehead' to HOTA". Scout Magazine. October 30, 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  23. ↑ Bennett, Steve. "Emma Holland: Here Comes Mr. Forehead : Reviews 2024". Chortle. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  24. ↑ "Emma Holland: Here Comes Mr Forehead". The Art House. Wyong, New South Wales. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2025. A-List Entertainment in association with Junkyard Artists present
  25. ↑ Radbourne, Lucas (23 January 2025). "Emerging comedy star Emma Holland is taking her 'personal gallery' on tour this March". Beat Magazine. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  26. ↑ "Claire Hooper's House Of Games: Series 1". iview.abc.net.au. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
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