Background
Holland was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania and raised in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Holland was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania and raised in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
He graduated in 1985 from University of California, Los Angeles"s school of Theater, Film and Television.
He was an honor student, graduating from Meadville Area Senior High School-M. A. South. H. While there, he wrote, directed and produced several parodies of movies popular at the time. Holland got his career break when Steven Spielberg saw his University of California, Los Angeles thesis film Chicken Thing —a 12 minute comedy horror short—and hired Holland to write and direct on the second season of Amazing Stories.
Holland directed 52 episodes of The Larry Sanders Show for Home Box Office. He received an Emmy for the series finale "FLIP".
Holland then started working in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle where he directed 26 episodes and served as co-executive producer for the show. Holland co-created Wonderfalls with Bryan Fuller - for which they received a WGA nomination.
He has also directed the feature films The Wizard, Krippendorf"s Tribe and Firehouse Dog. Holland has directed twice for the National Broadcasting Company sitcom 30 Rock.
Holland worked with Justin Berfield, with whom he had worked on Malcolm in the Middle, on Sons of Tucson, a 2010 Fox television sitcom.
He directed five of the thirteen episodes and executive produced the series. Two of his shows were named in television Guide"s "100 greatest Episodes of Television", the "Everybody Loves Larry" episode of The Larry Sanders Show and "The Life Of Bryan" episode of My So-Called Life.