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Holly Burn

Holly is  a stand up and character comedian and has appeared in four very successful one woman comedy shows in Edinburgh 2007- 10

In 2011 she won a place on a prestigious  BOB MORTIMER fronted BBC scheme called 'Jesting About' in which she wrote and performed a sketch show for BBC Radio alongside TV's Mark Benton. This year she was commissioned to film a sketch for BBC comedy with Eyeworks playing Kate Middleton but it was deemed too controversial to air!

She regularly gig at clubs such at Knock2bag, Sketchercise,The Good Ship, The Albany, Leicester Square Theatre etc and many many others . This year she performed at Comedy Rush at The Shaftesbury Theatre in March, and in May she performed at The Royal Festival Hall in STEWART LEE'S show'At Last! The 1981 Show' alongside many comedy legends... 

She is resident at  twice monthly south London club Pull  The Other One. She also comperes for corporate events such as Coca- Cola  Uk's  Christmas Party and work as an actress and voice over artist.

In April Her face took up a whole page of Bizarre Magazine in which she was named a  NEW HERO of ALTERNATIVE COMEDY on the page opposite to her hero Paul Foot
2010 PRESS:                  "THE BEST OF EDINBURGH"- The Independent

"A great way to spend a fringe afternoon. 
Geordie power house Holly Burn" - **** Chortle- Julian Hall

“Holly is still brilliant but completely and utterly bonkers" –**** Edinburgh Spotlight

“A rip-roaring hour of delicious madness. Living and Dying is surreal, hilarious fun... 
The most inventive show I’ve seen at this years fringe **** Broadway Baby

"A decidedly varied hour of character comedy from the possibly unhinged Geordie, Living and Dying is daring, gloriously self-indulgent and quite unlike anything else you¹ll see at the Fringe... sublime" 
- Jay Richardson-  London is Funny

"Burn is energetic, enigmatic and undeniably unique.... Burn’s charisma carries the show wonderfully. An original spectacle.... genuine hilarity." Scotsgay

"Burn's bizarre imagination is vivid, boundless and contagious" The List

"A very likeable, undoubtedly talented and funny young lady. Never scared to do things differently she fully integrates with the audience. She is wacky, you’ll either love her, loathe her, which I doubt, but you certainly shouldn’t ignore her.  A delightful mish-mash of really funny, occasionally abstract, even surreal at times material with recurring characters and situations. " One 4 Review

The Best of Edinburgh - THE INDEPENDENT:
"Absorbing if uneven, and both ridiculous and rewarding at the same time, Holly Burn's mix of character comedy, stand-up and sketches is uniquely bonkers, capturing the spirit of Fringe experimentalism. Previous shows have seen Burn lead an audience to a memorial for her dead dog; another saw her invite them into her house for a site-specific spectacular that was mystifying and mirth-inducing at the same time."
Top 50 Must See Comedy shows EDINBURGH IS FUNNY

More Press:

‘Highly talented… Wonderfully abstract… surreal’ Time Out London Critics' Choice
'Dangerous but hilarious… Genuinely inspired and edgy... daringly different' Stage
'A coup de theatre….likely to lead to Burn’s sectioning'  Chortle
'Bonkers but brilliant! Exceptional' ***** Edinburgh Spotlight
‘Totally compulsive, totally memorable experience, with some surprisingly shrewd twists' LIST  
'A total hoot.... unmissable' **** One4Review

'The lively and inventive comic behind the wonderful cult show At Home With Holly'  London is Funny

HOLLY began writing and performing comedy in February 2007 and since then has taken her own unique style of character comedy to Edinburgh, appearing in four highly successful one woman shows which are a hybrid of character, sketch and stand up.

In her 2008 Edinburgh show HOLLYWOULD...BUT DOESN’T THINK SHE’LL BOTHER, HOLLY took her audience down the steps of the venue and on a walk down West Nicholson Street to see the shrine and memorial to her dead dog in the window of the PDSA charity shop. "Especially impressive"- The List

In 2009, she went a step further, staging AT HOME WITH HOLLY in her New Town flat. Described as a “wonderful cult show “ LONDON IS FUNNY audiences were invited to join Holly in a world of raw meat throwing, fireworks in the shower and the smashing of vintage ornaments with a hammer. This was radical and innovative comedy performed in her real house. Almost too real in fact… She was once awoken at 10 a.m. by a stranger at the foot of her bed, trying to buy a ticket for that day’s show.

HOLLY BURN is a trained actress and comedian originally from Newcastle.
During last year’s festival HOLLY could also be seen as Phillippa Henry, the masseuse in Mark Watson's Fringe First award winning HOTEL (for which she appeared on BBC2’s Culture Show 
 She recently filmed for BBC3's The Wall and ITV's Comedy Cuts and performed at The Latitude Festival and The Arts Theatre - West End. HOLLY has studied under the French director and Bouffon teacher PHILIPPE GAULIER. She is a surrealist whose comedy is relentlessly uncompromising, often uncomfortable…but totally unforgettable.