Bernadette Green, Professional actor and acting coach, has been working at the Canadian Mental Health Association for three years.

 Part of her position was to create a youth program. With her background in acting, it made sense for her to start a theatre program.

"We wanted it to be inclusive so instead of auditioning and having a play, what we do is we create our own play, we start with an idea and that way I didn't have to turn anybody away. The program is a fraction of the cost compared to a professional theatre. We have a really unique program and I am really not aware of this program being offered anywhere in Canada," said Green

"The Youth Theatre Program has been designed to create a safe, fun learning environment where youth can explore their imagination and creativity. Our objectives are to encourage self-esteem, confidence, inclusion and leadership and ultimately bringing positive mental health awareness and education. This helps reduce the stigma surrounding mental health," she added.

Green's Acting classes will start up again in the Fall with a six-week program at Signal Hill.

Bernadette Mullen, is her acting name and has had a number of small roles before she began acting training in 2007. As a single mother, it took her six years instead of the regular four but since she graduated in 2014, she has starred in some feature films.

The Sabbatical was filmed in Regina in 2015 and has had attention from a number of film festivals around the world.

"The Sabbatical is directed by Brian Stockton and stars James Whittingham and Laurel Abramsen and I play James' workaholic wife whose career is going very well and her husband is a street photographer who's going through a midlife crisis and she doesn't have time for her husband. It's a comedy about him, how he ends up forming a friendship with a university student," said Green.

The Sabbatical took 18 months to film as they wanted to have all four seasons represented throughout the movie. During the initial shoot, they also realised they needed to film more content for the story.

"There was actually no script, it was basically scenes, we had to hit certain objectives in each scene, so there might be five points, we would rehearse the five points, find the lines and shoot it," explained Green.

The Sabbatical has just been released "Video on Demand" across North America.

Green said the removal of the Saskatchewan Film Tax Credit in 2012 "essentially killed the industry."

"What happened here is we have a die hard group of film makers who are just making it work with the resources they have. There's no living to make here in Film. Most of the crew left. It's really been devastating."

Despite the limited resources, some of the "Die hard" crews continue to persevere in Saskatchewan based film production.

"We worked on a trailer, the working title is Derelict Tendencies (directed by Kolbie Nesset) where I play the lead role of a 40-year-old punk rocker. What happened is, in her 20's her boyfriend who is the "punk rock god of Regina", goes missing. she doesn't know if he was kidnapped, if he just left her or if he was killed, she doesn't know these answers so she just stays stuck in the past so she is a 40-year-old punk rocker." shares Green. 

Green said that wearing her costume off set in Regina but not filming was quite interesting because people would mock her or give her funny looks.

"It got to the point where I didn't want to walk by myself because I was actually concerned for my safety."

Recently, Green has been working on a short film called "Awake." It's a short film (directed by Levi Mierau) based on H.P. Lovecraft. It is a horror film short.

"The goal with that (Awake) is to turn it into a television series or at least a web series. I get to be all scary in a short film," added Green.

In 2015 Bernadette's work was recognized by the Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards nominating her for Best Actor for her role as Dr. Bennet in the film short 'RCI,' directed by Elise Beaudry-Ferland.