As a playwright Holli has been awarded the Terrence G. Hall Fellowship, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, and an EST/Sloan Grant.  She is TNT Pops Winner and Three-Time Winner of Austin Film Festival Second Rounder. Winner Fishamble Tiny Plays Challenge, Sky Blue Theatre 2019 Play Competition. Holli was commissioned by 365 Women A Year to write a play about science fiction writer, Octavia E. Butler. She was a Finalist for A Room Of Her Own and finalist two years in a row with the Nantucket Short Play Festival. Her play NAPLES, FL was a finalist with the Great Plains Theatre Festival as well as New York’s Summer Play Festival. As a screenwriter, her short narrative "Icarus Stops For Breakfast" has won over 23 awards from over 35 festivals. Her flash fiction story, “The Russians”, is published in The Dead Mule Southern Literature, as well as her essay I GREW UP. Her plays have been produced by Sky Blue Theatre Co in UK, Estrogenius Festival NYC, Edgemar Center Santa Monica, and City Theatre, Miami, to name a few.

Her play MAKE JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY GO HOME, which was produced by City Theatre’s Summer Shorts Festival, Miami, is published in Smith & Krause’s “Anthology Of 50 Best Ten Minute Plays”.  Her play COUGAR is published in “The City Theatre Anthology”.  Her essay, “Crashing”, about the adoption of her daughter, Beatrice, in China is published in Verbal Supply Company.

She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and a contributing writer for Verbal Supply Company and Monologues & Madness. Holli is also contributing screenwriter for the directing program at School Of Visual Arts (SVA) NYC, and on the board of Women In The Arts and Media Coalition. She is reviewer for Front Row Center.