Bernadette Hamilton-Brady
Bernadette Hamilton-Brady has served in Administration for the Drama Department for 32 years, part of which was as Director of Theatre under a previous departmental designation, and is now currently the Chair. Under her tenure, she has produced, directed, acted, light designed, and choreographed for over sixty productions at St. Mary’s University.
Her expertise encompasses pedagogical applications at her campus, study-abroad in London, and production work in creativity, theatre, musical theatre and dance. Such work included her one-woman show on Pola Negri entitled His Polita in 2003. This production was based upon research gathered from the Pola Negri Collection in the St. Mary’s University Blume Library’s Archives as well as other sources. She presented supplemental research from this project at the FINA International Conference: Pola Negri and the Vicissitudes of Stardom in Warsaw, Poland and at the Pola i inni Film Festival in Lipno, Poland during the Spring of 2018. The mayor of Lipno presented her with a key to the city.
She has also performed the roles of Mrs. Patrick Campbell in Dear Liar, Gertrude in Hamlet and Wife in the bilingual production of August Strindberg’s The Stronger with the International Theatre Festival of San Antonio. Her work also includes various collaborations with the San Antonio Symphony, Opera Theatre of San Antonio, Mexican Cultural Institute, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Jump-Start Performance Co., San Antonio Public Theatre, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio Public Library, Texas Ballet Concerto, Incarnate Word Ballet Company, Joffery Ballet Workshop, Richmond Ballet and Virginia Opera.
Co-authored IDENTITATEM <—>IDENTIDAD<—>IDENTITY: A Transformative Theatre Project Capturing the Spiritual and Cultural Realities of Youth and Young Adults in Holy Rosary Parish, San Antonio, Texas with Jorge Martinez.
