Biography
When Barbara Holliday isn’t busy running her core business Digital Design LA, Inc, (Est.1989) her Burbank Based Computer training company, she is busy Speaking and Producing comedy with her passion business, H2F Comedy Productions, Inc. (Est. 2000) Her comedians and shows can be found on stage at almost any major comedy venue in Los Angeles, including The Ice House in Pasadena, CA. Barbara is an established Entrepreneur, Speaker and Trainer who consistently wows audiences with her stand-up speaking skills and stories about growing on food stamps and living in a trailer to successfully starting her own businesses and letting go of her painful past and healing through comedy. Her mission is clear: To instigate and motivate through humor and play!
Holliday was born in Long Island, New York to computer programmer Paul Holliday and visual artist Madeline Baker, she also has one sister. When she was younger her family traveled and moved around a lot, from New York, to San Diego, CA, then after her parents divorced and mother remarried she eventually ended up in very small town called Eagle Point, Oregon where she finished out her high school years. She believes her multi-talented capacity for business, producing and performing and is a result of being raised in a thoroughly mobile, adaptable “left brain/right brain” family.
She eventually went on to college and after graduating from San Diego State University with her CBEST certification and a degree in Theater Arts (Hon.) English minor in 1989, she was headed for a high school teaching stint but ended up getting cast instead as a Kid’s Club Host and Producer “Roxy the Fox” for Twentieth Century Fox on the highly-rated television program Fox Kids Club in Oregon. The show allowed Holliday to hone her producing & creative writing skills on some of the toughest guests around—young children and animals. Barbara wrote and produced, and starred in over 350 shows. Some her clips have been featured on Worlds Funniest and other major network shows.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 1993, Holliday started a Computer Training business that caters to the entertainment industry, has been on Eleven Game Shows, performed in films (Naked Gun 33⅓) and television shows (Friends, The Dating Game, World’s Funniest), on stage (Funny Girl, Hello Dolly, West Side Story), in theme parks (Magic Mountain) and as a stand-up and sketch comedian (The Comedy Store, The Icehouse, IGBY’s, Mr. B’s, Ha Ha Café, The Improv and various other Showcases throughout the country. She has also worked as a Clown, and balloon artist at local theme parks, as well as being the Producer and Co-Creator of the Live Stage Shows: Uncle Clyde’s Comedy Contest, Jokeyoke, and Survival of the Funniest.
In order to accommodate her comedy habit, Barbara decided to make the best use of her entertaining computer skills to start a computer training company that services the entertainment industry. Today, Holliday’s Burbank, Calif. based company Digital Design LA, Inc. comprises a state-of-the-art training facility with three rooms, a green room, a cutting edge conference space, computers galore, industrial strength servers and network, five full-time employees and dozens of certified, yet amazingly “entertaining” training experts. Her unique understanding of what the entertainment industry needs in terms of high tech instruction with a creative flair has helped her gain the respect and business of the major entertainment companies. Her clients include: Warner Bros., Paramount, NBC Universal, LA Philharmonic just to name a few.
Not only is she a credentialed Teacher in the State of California, she is a member of MPI, SAG, NACA, APCA, and AFTRA as well as the Burbank Chamber of Commerce, ASTD, and the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE).
Today Holliday lives in Burbank with her boyfriend Dave Reinitz (The Jet Blue Guy- You gotta ask about this story!) and fellow stand-up comic. At home, they enjoy testing out new comedy material on their favorite audience members their dog Bozley the Beagle and their two cats Cosmo the Kitty & Abby the Tabby.
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Links
| http://www.barbaraholliday.h2f.net |
| Building Flappers Comedy Club Blog |
| Bargain Traveller Blog |
| Barbara's Website |
| Comedy Casting.com |
| MYSPACE |