Bernadette is an actor, theatre-maker, author and co-founder of Gaitkrash Theatre Company. She has trained in both western, Stanislavski-influenced approaches to actor training as well as eastern approaches that train the actor in psychophysical practice. She holds a Diploma in acting from LAMDA, is a qualified Linklater voice teacher (KLVC Orkney, UK / Fraueninsel, Germany) and a yoga instructor (HYVC Goa, India). Recent performance work includes Footfalls (Words by Water Festival, Kinsale 2025), The Father Myth (Cork Arts Theatre, 2025), Play (Granary Theatre 2024), Prometheus Now (Cork Midsummer Festival 2021), Impossible Object (Open is Theatre Festival, Spain 2021), Cosy (Cork Midsummer Festival 2019), Killing Stella (Everyman 2018, Belltable, Theatre Royal 2019), On an Island, (West Cork Islands Festival 2017), playing ‘the maids’ (Wales tour 2015). She holds an MA from UCC (adaptation – novel to film script), a PhD (contemporary postdramatic theatre) from the University of Exeter, and a Diploma in Translation (German/English) from City University London. She has published a number of edited collections, book chapters and articles, including Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice (Palgrave) and Re-Acting to Ingeborg Bachmann: New Essays and Performances (Königshausen und Neumann), and has co-authored a book on the voice work of master voice teacher Kristin Linklater (Kristin Linklater, Routledge Performance Practitioner Series). She taught devised adaptation, Actor Training, Dramatic Literature and Voice at the Department of Theatre University College Cork for several years.
For film work she is represented by https://www.bloomartistmanagement.com/