Comedian Vanessa Hollingshead is the quintessential, native New Yorker. She claims she just got her driver’s license a couple of years ago. So, stay off the roads if you're near her NY Apartment. I'm not joking.As a child, my dear friend "Vee" spent a year at Millbrook Mansion with her father, Michael Hollingshead, who introduced Timothy Leary, and later, Paul McCartney, of the “Beatles,” to LSD. At five years old she took LSD by accident. "Hey, it was on a sugar cube, and they were out of Snickers." Her mother Sophie found out and was outraged.
She whisked Vanessa back to New York City, encouraged her to try “amphetamines” to help her clean the apartment and to stay away from sugar. “Bad for your teeth!” But motherhood did not agree with Sophie, as it interfered with her finding good weed in bad neighborhoods. Now, throw in two years on a commune by herself, two years in London with her dad, and a decade of temp work, and Vanessa’s angst was complete. Coincidentally, a great comedian was born.
Could this be why her comedy is just so outrageous and funny?
Vanessa is one funny comedian and a dear friend of ours here at AuditionPortal.com. You can catch her at Gotham Comedy club and hundreds of clubs throughout the tri-state area, on a regular basis.
Please check her website at www.vanessahollingshead.com to see samples of her work, get updates and to buy a copy of her riotous DVD, "Vanessa Hollingshead, An American Anglomanicac," Produced by Tovero & Marks.
Paul Brighton
www.auditionportal.com
