Holly’s performing career has taken her across the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom. Among the festival stages she’s graced are England’s Cambridge Folk Festival, Canada’s Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Edmonton Folk Music Festival, and Washington State’s Northwest Folklife Festival. She’s sung in hundreds of clubs, colleges, schools, and concert halls. She’s performed with and learned from music legends such as her ex-husband Davey Graham, Diz Disley, the late Sandy Denny, and pianist Joe Baque, with whom she recorded “True Stories”. Holly has written and performed scores for films and videos.

Holly is a gifted character actress with stage, television, film and radio credits, and a 25-year member of Actors’ Equity Association. She has performed 35 leading dramatic and comedic roles as well as musicals. Thoroughly trained, she benefited from working with famed directors Dr. Frank Galati and Dr. Jack Clay. She also has written, directed and produced seven musicals for young audiences. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Aside from her professional career as a singer/songwriter and actress, Holly has a continuing devotion to the arts in education. Over the years, Holly has worked with thousands of school children in classrooms throughout Washington, Nevada, Alaska and Florida doing 105 residencies in theatre and music through state arts commissions. Contact her for a catalogue of plays with parts for up to 30 children, written collaboratively with children and teachers, designed for classroom performances. Plays contain themes of tolerance, community, non-violence, communication and peace and many, like “The Revenge of the Teachers”, are also very funny.

Besides writing plays and songs, Holly teaches playwriting, production, stagecraft, how to make giant parade art, plaster bandage masks, and creature rhythm shakers from recycled materials. She has been a participant since the beginning in Olympia’s 10-year-old Earth Day celebration, The Procession of the Species, bringing groups and teachers into the festivities, teaching workshops, and playing parade percussion.