Bernadette Nason is a multiple award-winning storyteller, actress, author, and humorist. She’s been a Texas Commission on the Arts’ touring artist since 2002, telling multicultural tales and personal stories annually to as many as 30,000 students, Pre-K through high school. 

Bernadette is a longstanding company member of Austin Playhouse, and a former associate artist with Austin Shakespeare Festival, ONSTAGE Theatre, and Pollyanna Theatre Co. She belongs to Actors’ Equity and the Screen Actors’ Guild, and is regularly seen in regional theatre productions, and occasionally in movies (look for her in Miss Congeniality). She writes and performs solo shows about her adventures in England, North Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the US. She has published two memoirs: Tea in Tripoli and Stealing Baby Jesus: A Treasury of Ludicrous Attempts to Rescue Christmas. 

Bernadette, who had a 20-year career in executive office management in an earlier life, hails from England, lives in Austin, and performs all over the world.