PRESS RELEASE FOR BELLINGHAM BAY

Bellingham Bay

Award-winning actor, writer & comedian, Katherine Bourne Taylor, is bringing her solo comedy, Bellingham Bay, to the Hollywood Fringe this June.

Immerse yourself in a multi-season 90s TV Show Katherine made up in her head.
Yearning! Town Secrets! Nostalgia!

BELLINGHAM BAY, 1992. Father Peter, a young priest, arrives in the close-knit Pacific Northwest town and quickly clashes with Stella, the local pub owner with the voice of an angel… and a secret.

BELLINGHAM BAY is for you IF…
● You believe in LOVE!
● You yearn to be COMFORTED in these trying times!
● You think Teen WB TV, cozy BBC shows and The Goo Goo Dolls are actually kind of charming!
● You’re a DREAMER who believes we might all be ok if we just had a friendly bar to meet at every night in this coastal, one-pub town!

Written and performed by Bourne Taylor and directed by Ben Blacker (Thrilling Adventure Hour, Dead Pilot’s Society), Bellingham Bay is like a Wikipedia deep-dive into an iconic 90s TV show, set to a late-night Delilah radio show soundtrack. It’s a piece of comedic theater and a serious series pitch all in one. Bellingham Bay was developed at The Elysian Theater (where it recently showed in April), Nico’s in
Atwater Village, and Obsessed: A Comedy Show about Your Hyper-Fixations.

Creator Katherine Bourne Taylor says, “The origins of this “Bellingham Bay” trace back to a maladaptive daydream I’ve been building in my head since I was eleven, when the world felt chaotic (sound familiar?), before I knew I had OCD, and I needed somewhere fun and safe to escape to. Bringing this thing into the real world has reminded me of the power in our daydreams, and reinforced my belief that everyone is entitled to the safe places they carve out for themselves. And God, I’m obsessed with a small-town love story.”

Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] for any media requests.

When:
Saturday, June 6th at 12pm / Friday, June 19th, 6:30PM / Monday, June 22nd, 5:00PM
The Broadwater Black Box
6322 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles

Please contact [email protected], through Hollywood Fringe or use code BHBPRESS for Industry & Press Comps.

Bellingham Bay runs 75 Minutes.

Artist Bios:
Katherine Bourne Taylor (Writer, Performer): Katherine most recently co-hosted with Netflix is a Joke. Fest, where her comedy show and podcast, Obsessed: A Comedy Show about Your Hyper-Fixations, was featured. On the fringe circuit, she is the creator of Grown Up Orphan Annie (Edinburgh Fringe Playbill Pick of the Fringe, Hollywood Fringe Pick of the Fringe, Best of the Broadwater and Producer’s Encore Award). You’ve seen her on your TV in numerous commercials, Lovecraft Country, and The Ms. Pat Show, and is a stakeholder with The Back Room Shakespeare Project. Katherine is repped by Triniti Management.

Ben Blacker (Director): Ben Blacker is best known as the creator, with his writing partner Ben Acker, of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged show in the style of old-time radio. The show ran as a podcast for five years and won awards and garnered acclaim everywhere from the LA Weekly to Rolling Stone. With Acker, Blacker has sold pilots to USA, Fox, Nickelodeon, Spike, and other networks. Blacker is the creator and host of The Writers Panel, a podcast in which he talks with writers about the business and process of writing television. He’s also the co-producer of Dead Pilots Society, the live show and podcast in which pilots by professional writers that were bought and developed but never produced are given the table reads they so richly deserve.