North Fork TV Festival features Bridget Moynahan of 'Blue Bloods', Kelsey Grammer, more stars

“Blue Bloods” star Bridget Moynahan, along with Kelsey Grammer, Marcia Gay Harden, Richard Schiff and John Turturro, will be among the notables attending this year’s ninth annual North Fork TV Festival, taking place Tuesday and Wednesday in Greenport.

Additionally, “Blue Bloods” showrunner Kevin Wade, of Locust Valley, participates in a producers panel discussion about the creative and organizational process of their work.

“Bridget has always really supported the North Fork TV Festival,” says Commack-raised festival founder Noah Doyle, 43, a financial adviser who with his attorney wife, Lauren, and their two children split their time between Manhattan and Greenport. “She was our first Ambassador for the Arts honoree. And obviously, ‘Blue Bloods’ is a legendary drama series,” he says, noting that such “police procedurals have been the backbone of scripted TV for many years, and this is a festival about episodic television.”

Moynahan this year is a star and a co-producer of the independent TV pilot “Swipe NYC,” alongside castmates Lisa Edelstein (“House”) and Schiff (“The West Wing”). Created by Sue Zarco Kramer, the show, said festival artistic director Mike Stern in a statement, is “a coming-into-age comedy with a hilarious backdrop of online dating in Brooklyn.”

It is one of four winners of this year’s independent-pilot competition, and will screen along with Al Julian and Vince Eisenson’s drama “The Sessions,” starring R. Keith Harris, about a therapy group for convicted killers; Juliana Piscina’s comedy “The Ladies,” about a high school girls-basketball team; and the sketch comedy “Typical Dan Peterson Stuff,” starring and created by Scott Kruse, Josh Long and Kurt Quinn.

Emmy Award winner Schiff is this year’s Ambassador for the Arts honoree. Oscar and Tony Award winner and four-time Emmy nominee Harden (“So Help Me Todd,” “The Morning Show”) will be presented with this year’s Canopy Award — a vineyard term, in honor of the local wine industry — bestowed to New York TV professionals embodying “the creative ambitions of diverse storytelling through their persistence, integrity and inclusive nature.”

The past honorees are actors Carrie Preston, J. Smith-Cameron, Jeremy Sisto, Grammer, Aida Turturro and Chris Noth.

Taking place primarily at The American Beech Hotel and the Sound View Greenport hotel, the festival also features post-screening Q&As; numerous panels; the Turturro presentation “A Journey Through the Evolution of TV,” plus an interview with him hosted by Erik Warner and Newsday TV’s Elisa DiStefano; breakfast and dinner events; and a red-carpet closing-night reception.

“I don't think we have ever had a lineup with as many award-winning and award-nominated actors as are attending this year's festival,” says Doyle, “many of which are returning for multiple times. Kelsey's coming back for his third year. Bridget Moynahan is coming back for her second year,” he says — adding, “The lineup that this year's creative team has curated can rival those of the biggest festivals in this country!”

Tickets are available at Northfork.tv.