Holly Shaw is an award-winning writer, actor and stand-up comedian performing regularly at comedy clubs and showcases all over Northern California. Before becoming a comedian, Shaw spent a lifetime on stage, on T.V. (hosted the televised Edinburgh Revue) and film (starred in the ABC Afterschool Special, Love Hurts) as an actor, professional dancer and later as a speaker and stand-up comedian.

 

She's authored and published three books: The Creative Formula, which is taught in universities around the world, as well as Making Art In the Middle of Madness and her third book, Queen Lessons, won a silver medal in the Readers’ Favorite Award 2026 for Non-Fiction Humor Books.

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Most recently, Shaw has been performing her one-woman show, an immersive ghost story dramedy called, Roar! Which has won awards (including Best Full-Length Dramedy (The Marsh IFOYE Festival), and was nominated for the Loud Karma Playwright Award and Best Solo Award at Feury Theatre at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

 

A prolific performer and writer, Shaw is an architect of experience. A sculptor of the moment. From her unique crowdwork where she “reads your relationship aura,” to her effusive track record for producing enlivening shows and workshops, Shaw creates a container for magic to happen.

 

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