Bernadette Nason
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Bernadette Nason

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BERNADETTE NASON is an award-winning actress, voice-over artist, and professional storyteller. She published "STEALING BABY JESUS: A Treasury of Ludicrous Attempts to Rescue Christmas" -- a compilation of compelling stories about unusual (read, dysfunctional) Christmases in foreign parts -- on Tuesday, 17 November, 2020. Her first publication, "Tea in Tripoli: A Memoir" was released on 21 August 2017. The second in the idiot-secretary series, "Dinner in Dubai", about her wild years in the Persian Gulf, is a work in progress, both on the page and with her therapist. Nason has been writing consistently (i.e. like a real writer) since 1991 when she bought her first PC in Dubai, but has maintained a journal since childhood, and wrote ridiculously detailed letters to family and friends (she has copies) during her travels, which prove useful when memory fails or brain function ceases. Her first notable success as a writer was with her plays, "The Night Before Christmas" and "Arabian Nights", nominated in 1998 and 2001 respectively for "Outstanding Production for Youth" by Austin Circle of Theatres. In 2001, her script, "Letty's Prayer", based on a New Orleans' urban legend, won the Alchemy Works Movie Midwifing Contest, and was a finalist in the Monterey County Film Festival Screenwriting Contest. An edited version was a semi-finalist in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Contest and the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project in 2003. Her script, "The Carmichael Plan" was also a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Project and received an Honorable Mention in the Texas Film Institute's Screenwriting Contest the same year. For a decade, she focused on acting and storytelling. In that time, she won five Austin Circle of Theatre and Austin Critics' Table acting awards, and was nominated for ten more. She won the 2007 Austin Critics’ Table Special Citation for “Conspicuous Versatility". In 2010, Central Texas Live Theatre acknowledged her one-woman presentation of "A Christmas Carol" (33 distinct characters!) with "Best Solo Performance", and she achieved the dubious title, “Biggest Liar in Houston". She has appeared at the National Storytelling Festival (Exchange Place), and at festivals and conferences all over the US. In 2011, Nason wrote a one-woman show, "Tea in Tripoli", about the fifteen months she spent in Libya in 1984-85, a fascinating yet precarious time, which she performed in Austin that year. The overwhelmingly positive reaction (full houses, standing ovations) led to four award nominations: Best Actress, Best Original Script, and two for Best Production. It also encouraged her to write the book. In 2015, she created a solo show based on her search for the meaning of Christmas. Once again, this anecdotal production turned into her most recent book, "STEALING BABY JESUS: A Treasury of Ludicrous Attempts to Rescue Christmas." Nason brings a theatrical flair to everything (ask her friends) both as an artist and in life. She is a touring artist with the Texas Commission on the Arts, telling adapted folktales annually to over 30,000 students, Pre-K through high school. She's also acclaimed for her solo presentations of stories under one theme: "Tea in Tripoli"; "Dinner in Dubai"; "Iced Tea in Texas"; "Stealing Baby Jesus". She's regularly seen in regional theatre productions, and is a company member of Austin Playhouse. She appeared in "Miss Congeniality" as the pageant matron (the lady with the clipboard), but you won't recognize her...seriously, her mother didn't. Nason hails from England, lived in North Africa and the Persian Gulf, and now resides in Austin with her beloved ex-husband and some dubious cats.
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