About Us
Mission & Vision: We teach personal storytelling as a practical skill, facilitating workshops and events that invite reflection, encourage connection, and make personal storytelling accessible. We work with schools, universities, and organisations in order to strengthen connections and well-being. We believe everyone has a story worth telling, and that making space for these stories fosters a more connected, empathetic, and inclusive world.
Emma Holmes
Emma Holmes is a bubbly Irish storyteller and entertainment entrepreneur based in the Netherlands who has dedicated the last decade of her life to sharing her passion for the art of oral storytelling. Inspired by the seanchaí, a traditional Gaelic storyteller, Emma has made it her life mission to showcase the power of a great story.
Before stories were widely written down, the role of the seanchaithe was to pass on knowledge, stories, song, and history. Long ago they were the beating heart and cultural memory of a community. In the 21st century, with the rise of social media and distraction technology, the world is facing a global loneliness epidemic. One Emma believes could be counteracted, at least in part, by sharing stories. Her aim is to enable everyone to improve their innate storytelling skills and, hopefully, in doing so, allowing people to reconnect socially, foster empathy, and live more emotionally fulfilling lives as part of a community.
Emma began her performing career initially to escape her university thesis. As she handed in her dissertation her comedy career was already enough to sustain, albeit as a starving artist, her life in the Netherlands. With hard work, luck, and a huge grin on her face, for the next decade she would give other artists a platform on which to showcase their art.
To date, as the founder of EEH Productions, she has organised, hosted, and performed at over 500 shows around the Netherlands in stand-up comedy, improv comedy, storytelling, poetry, theatre, and pub quizzes. She has also taught these art forms to hundreds of pupils from around the world, as well as many large enterprises, such as Unilever, Heinz, General Motors, and OxfamNovib, and universities, such as Wageningen University and Research, Aeres Dronten, Utrecht University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, at over 1,000 unique workshops.
She has had the honour to teach for prestigious improv and comedy schools such as easylaughs and Improv Utrecht, as well as founding and running the Wageningen Comedy Club for nearly a decade.
In her spare time Emma loves to write, cycle tour and eat. She also has a fabulous collection of eclectic and colourful socks.
Elize Polderman
Elize Polderman is a Dutch storyteller from the lands once reclaimed from the sea. She began her career in hotel management, working briefly as a wedding planner, before moving into the world of sustainable business and innovation after realising how the world could crumble without sustainable change.
During her studies she honed her skills as a performing artist: Writing songs, performing comedy without a script, and sharing true and touching tales of loss, love, and loneliness at packed out venues across the country. The more she worked on her art, the more she realised her true passion lay within storytelling. An art form which allows humour and vulnerability to co-exist and empower one another.
She has worked extensively with the Wageningen Comedy Club as a teacher, performer, and student. She has hosted multi-day storytelling workshops for high schools, such as Marnix College in Ede, and individual storytelling and improv workshops for non-profits such as Liever Viel Bloem and Fierce.
As she began her career as sustainability consultant in 2025, she teamed up with Emma to bring storytelling to high schools and universities as a means of helping teams connect with one another all whilst learning the skill of storytelling.
She is a happy little vegan with a penchant for plants, baking, and theatre, who aspires to inspire the world towards positive change.
