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HOLLY

AUSTIN

actor | writer | noisemaker

 

“Austin has a kind of genius in her performance, a happy, infectious tenacity. She’s like Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky or Audrey Tautou in Amélie.”

– See Saw Magazine

Holly Austin is one of Australia’s most versatile multi-disciplinary performers celebrated for her individuality in theatremaking and her unique vocal dexterity.
 

Not only a skilled performer, Holly is a writer for both stage and screen and generates much of her own work. In 2017, Holly was co-
awarded, The Philip Parsons Award for playwriting with Adriano Cappelletta with whom sh
e co-wrote the ABC Fresh Blood
series Ultimate Fanj and the beautiful theatre work Ruby’s Wish, which toured nationally to The Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and Perth's Awesome Festival. 

 

Holly is a NIDA graduate and the recipient of The Mike Walsh Fellowship, The Ian Potter Cultural Award and The Inaugural ACTF Joan & Betty Rayner Fellowship.
 
As an actor she has a vast number of screen and theatre credits under her belt most recently including Virginia Gay's Cyrano (Melbourne Theatre Company, Perth Festival
 2023) and as Skye O'Dwyer in Amazon Prime's new series Deadloch. 
 
She was co-awarded $10,000 through Queer Screen's Inaugural Pitch Off Competition and won best screenplay at The M
ardi Gras Film Festival for Butch, a queer comedy television series co-written with Zoe McDonald.
 
In April 2019 her solo family work Dr. AudiYO's Giant Adventure, premiered at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It
has since toured to DreamBig Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, Parramatta Riverside and The Brisbane Festival.

Holly is also a musician and beatboxer and has performed nationally and internationally with the likes of Grammy Award winning artist Common, Martha Wainwright, John Butler, Amanda Palmer, Holly Throsby and Sui Zhen.

 

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