Vanessa Hollingshead is a New York stand-up comedian and actress with more than three decades on stage. She trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute, has a Comedy Central special, filmed Showtime’s Funny Women of a Certain Age, and has opened for Richard Pryor and George Carlin.Nobody at the Comedy Store wanted to…
Vanessa Hollingshead : Press Kit
September 24, 2026
The Comics Unseen
Press KitStand-up · Acting · New York
Vanessa Hollingshead
Nearly 30 years in stand-up, from a mid-90s open mic after years as an office temp to Showtime’s highest-rated stand-up premiere of 2019.FromBorn in New York · dual national
Works inStand-up · Acting
Known…