Kaytlin Bailey performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2024. Photo credit Ashleigh Ann Gardner.
Kaytlin Bailey Brings “The Oldest Profession” to Kingston, Challenging America’s Myths About Sex Work by Brian K. Mahoney for Chronogram — “[Kaytlin Bailey] will not be offering titillation or tragedy or tidy answers. She will offer something far more destabilizing to America’s moral furniture: history. Along with comedy. And an unflinching argument that everything we think we know about sex work—its origins, its harms, its legality, its place in culture—is not only wrong, but dangerously backward.”
Comedian Kaytlin Bailey Revives the Forgotten Histories of Sex Workers by Janea Melido for KQED — “Bailey brings her trademark irreverence to this hybrid of history lecture, comedic monologue and cultural critique that explores and revives the marginalized stories of sex workers.”
Stand-up comedian Kaylin Bailey performs ‘Whore’s Eye View’ show by Annie Ngo for Pipe Dream
Kaytlin Bailey of Old Pros: Five Things I wish Someone Told Me When I First Started by Authority Magazine
“Whore’s Eye View”: A Mad Dash Through 10,000 Years of History from a Sex Worker’s Perspective by Stuart Miller – “While history is the show’s foundation, Bailey’s personal stories form its heart.”
Kaytlin Bailey quoted in Mashable article: What happened at the end of ‘Anora,’ by Anna Iovine
Featured in Reason’s Documentary on Backpage.com article by Jim Epstein for Reason
The Six Best Fringe Festival Shows We Watched This Year by Rosa Cartagena and Frank Schierloh for The Philadelphia Inquirer – Honorable Mention
Kaytlin Bailey performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2024. Photo credit Emily Oliver.
Kaytlin Bailey performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2024. Photo credit Sriya Sarkar.
Kaytlin Bailey’s Whore’s Eye View Sets Off-Broadway Bow by Margaret Hall for Playbill — ” The crackling solo show is a mad dash primer through 10,000 years of sex work.”
How Kaytlin Bailey Is Fighting For a Sex Worker’s Right to Thrive by Margaret Hall for Playbill — “Like a TEDTalk spun through a poppers cloud, the show opens minds as eagerly as it fills them with fresh perspective.”
Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Reviews: Whore’s Eye View by Kate Copstick for The Scotsman — “It is an hour that hurtles by, packed like an ‘80s New York sex club with goddesses and witches, the excesses of the punitive patriarchy, courtesans, politics, war and the burning of cats.”
Chloe Jacobs and Kaytlin Bailey, Trinity College Bar for Daily Info — “Bailey seamlessly weaves the era-spanning cultural context of sex work into her own perspective as a sex worker with the polish and panache of an R-rated TED talk. The scope of the historical background Bailey provides is staggering for such a short timeframe.”
Sex Education by Clare Sawers for festmag — “Whore’s Eye View…hopes to debunk outdated myths around sex work, and platform real people whose lives can otherwise be reduced to dangerous stereotypes.”
Historical, comedic, personal, engaging and informative by Shemia Dixon for Theatreview — “A show that everyone, regardless of their personal views on sex work, simply has to experience”
Salted with humour and expressive pauses by Hannah Molloy for Theatreview — “10/10… There’s a lot to make any objective, open-minded or compassionate human angry, but Kaytlin describes so many incredibly powerful women that no one knows much about that there’s somehow a sense of hope that we might get back one day to a society that treasures women as their own beings, and also values equitable access to pleasure and bodily autonomy.”
Kaytlin Bailey performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2024. Photo credit Emily Oliver.
Whore’s Eye View by Sean Burnett Dugdale-Martin for Art Murmurs — “A blood-boiling, hilarious romp through a complicated intersectional human history driven by the charismatic and charming host.”
Whore’s Eye View by Nicole Jesson for Theatre Beyond Broadway — “Among her talents, Kaytlin Bailey is a fine comedian… I can honestly not think of anything else as informative or entertaining as Whore’s Eye View.”
Kaytlin Bailey covers 10,000 years of sex worker history in 75 minutes by Lily Janiak for San Francisco Chronicle — “The solo show mixes erudition with earthiness. It flows from unfiltered divulgence to impassioned thesis, all leavened by a parade of well-honed zingers.”
Get the “Whore’s Eye View” at Orlando Fringe! by Krysti for Freaks of HHN — “There’s lots of words I can use to describe Whore’s Eye View – funny, captivating, illuminating, etc – but the word I really want to say is “important.” Whore’s Eye View is an important production for our shifting culture and societal views.”
Fringe: Whore’s Eye View by Thomas Thorspecken for Analog Artist Digital World — “The show was such a whirlwind of information and it left me wanting to learn more… I highly advise you see this show. You will leave the theater wanting to make a difference.”
Orlando Fringe Festival reviews: Love, war, sandwiches and a great escape by Mathew J. Palm for Orlando Sentinel — “The show is entertaining, thanks to Bailey’s passion for the topic and willingness to make herself part of the jokes, and will give you plenty of food for thought.”
LEARNING FROM THE PROS Philly Fringe 2023: Ella-Gabriel Mason’s Sex Werque and Kaytlin Bailey’s Whore’s Eye View by Melissa Strong for Broad Street Review — “Bailey’s terrific writing and comic delivery made this review engaging, and her reflections upon connections between history and her own identity—including awareness of her privileges—elevate Whore’s Eye View. The show connected history to personal experience in relevant and meaningful ways.”