Bernadette Smith

Bernadette Smith is a singer/performer/comedienne who for 13 years was a member of the family singing trio The Smith Sisters.  For two years she was the front person for the bush band show, The Jolly Swagman, at the Argyle Tavern (Sydney), singing and performing comedy.  Bernadette played for a year at the Bankstown Theatre Restaurant in Dimboola and has worked extensively in cabaret at Kinselas Sydney (Forbidden Broadway) and at Ducks Crossing Café in Neutral Bay Sydney in Forbidden Melody, Fractured Melody I, II & III and Excuse Me Girls with Phill Stephens.

Bernadette then performed with Anthony O’Keefe (Cats, Dames at Sea, Forbidden Broadway) for a cabaret season before joining up with Sydney actress/comedienne Helen O’Connor (Breakers, All Saints, GP, White Collar Blue) to devise The Bombshells, a comedy cabaret act featuring tongue-in-cheek impersonations of Hollywood stars as well as some original characters.  They performed at the Glenn Street Theatre, Parramatta Riverside Theatre, The Sydney Cabaret Convention and then for five years for corporate audiences at conferences and conventions around Australia through Celebrity Speakers in Sydney.

In 2002 Bernadette moved with her husband Duncan Clarke to North Queensland (Magnetic Island) and re-joined her ex singing partner in crime Phill Stephens (who also moved north) to produce and co-write a series of comedy cabaret shows as A Broad with the Queen (Bernadette is the Broad….)

Click to view Duncan's Biography , Phill's Biography and Kath's Biography