Stage and screen veteran Brooke Baumer brings her wildly popular solo show about her attempt to give birth to a child in her favorite month of the year to Fringe.
LOSANGELES (May 1, 2017) – Brooke Baumer is obsessed with the month of October, from hayrides to pumpkin bread to what she considers the motherload of all holidays…Halloween. She’s so obsessed, at one point she decided that she wanted to time the birth of her second child in the month of October. It didn’t go as planned.
The both heart-breaking and hilarious story of her efforts and all the obstacles that got in her way, from conception to delivery, are the theme of her brand new solo show October Baby, playing at Sacred Fools Theater as part of Hollywood Fringe this June. As Baumer describes it, what started as a fun idea quickly turned into something much more as everything that could go wrong, both with the pregnancy and her life, did.
“For years, I’ve joked about the journey with friends and family, but honestly,
