About the Project
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!
Reviews are IN!
“Like nothing I’ve ever seen in live theater before.”
“Brilliant storytelling.”
“Someone help her make this a TV show STAT”
“I was absolutely TRANSPORTED to the drama and yearning of Bellingham Bay. So funny. Such a nostalgia trip back to the types of TV shows we grew up on and loved.”
“A network pitch meets a slumber party”
“Bellingham Bay gave me goosebumps regularly. It truly felt as if I fell back into the 90’s & was watching this show on WB."
Helpful Links:
See Bellingham Bay Press Release
See Bellingham Bay Trailer + Audience Reactions
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) She has been seen on your TV in numerous commercials, Lovecraft Country, and The Ms. Pat Show, and is a stakeholder with The Back Room Shakespeare Project.
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.
Learn More at instagram.com/katherinebournetaylor/
Production Team
