Bernadette Ryan is co-founder of Sport for Jove Theatre, working as an Actor, Costume and Production Designer and Education Artist for the past 16 years. Recent acting credits include Ellen Terry in Singing the Blackbird, Agnes Hathaway in Venus & Adonis, Bach and the Bard, Romeo and Juliet, Richard 3, Queen Elizabeth in Rose Riot: Shakespeare’s History Cycle. She has also performed in Cyrano de Bergerac, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It (for SFJ). Selected theatre credits include Mary Mackillop in Her Holiness, Ophelia in Hamlet, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Kattrin in Mother Courage, Desdemona in Othello and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Cordelia in King Lear. Film credits include the Feature Film Venus & Adonis and Blessed Mary. Costume design credits include The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Isolde & Tristan (Old Fitz), Venus & Adonis Stage play and Feature Film, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Henry 4 and Richard 3. Bernadette is a Graduate of Theatre Nepean UWS.
