Warwick Holt (aka Wok) is a highly experienced, award-winning screenwriter, who’s written for many of Australia’s top comedians and presenters.
Wok has written on over 1900 episodes of national TV comedy and panel shows, starting with the ABC’s The Glass House in 2004, before moving on to The Sideshow and Good News Week, where he won five Australian Writers’ Guild (AWGIE) Awards.
He subsequently worked for over eight years on The Project (Network Ten), in the positions of Web Producer, Senior Writer and Head Writer.
Alongside co-writer Mat Blackwell and director Tony Rogers, Wok created BRUCE (2016), a black comedy web series about Australia’s first convicts, which won 23 awards worldwide and was a Webby Award Honoree for Best Writing – Film & Video.
In 2023 Wok and Alli Parker were awarded a Screen Australia grant to write FLIP, a feature film about the first Women’s World Cup of skateboarding, to be directed by Luke Eve, and executive produced by skating legend Tony Hawk.
Wok has previously received development funding for feature screenplays The Devil’s In The Details and The Butterfly Ball.
Wok also wrote, produced, and directed successful documentaries including The PhanDom Menace. In 2018, he was Head Writer for online series That Startup Show, which has had over a million views on YouTube.
Other TV shows he’s written for include The Great Comedy Debate, The Comedy Festival Allstars Supershow, Good News World, The Ministry Of Truth, and animated series Mob Downunder.
In his past lives, Wok gained a Masters degree in Applied Maths, with a particular interest in chaos and fractals. He later worked as IT Manager for Shock Records, where he was awarded a gold record for creating the Stage Invaders game included on Frenzal Rhomb’s A Man’s Not A Camel.
Wok reverse-merged all aspects of himself into Media Empire in 2005, and it now stands as a home for his writing, producing, and unassailable control of the global agenda.
For many years Wok and Mat (Blackwell, keep up) posted up their source fodder for Good News Week, The Glass House and The Sideshow on the Media Empire blog, as a home outside the head writer’s PC. They remain preserved as an archive of largely unused jokes for every occasion, and as a glimpse at the iceberg technique of comedy creation.
Wok lives and works, and Media Empire is housed, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.