Career
Hopkins" early plays and experimental theatre texts were first produced in New York City during the 1990s at Office-Office-Broadway theatres including HERE Arts Center, the Ohio Theatre, Theatre for the New City, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Present Company Theatorium and The New York International Fringe Festival. He was a 1994 Drama League of New York Developing Artist Fellow and a 1995 Resident Artist/Jerome Foundation Fellow at Mabou Mines/Suite. Since 2001, his plays have been produced, commissioned and have toured internationally.
Following its London premiere at Riverside Studios, Horse Country toured the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and The Netherlands.
His 2004 play screwmachine/eyecandy premiered at Assembly Rooms at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was awarded a Scotsman Fringe First for New Writing. The United States premiere was presented at 59E59 Theaters in New York in 2006.
Also in 2006, Hopkins was commissioned by the Freie Universität Berlin to write and direct a site-specific work, The Insurgency, the German translation of which was staged in the university"s Philological Library. His 2009 play, The Extremists, commissioned by 7 Stages and directed by Walter Doctorate. Asmus, premiered in Berlin and Atlanta.
The United Kingdom premiere was presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
His work is often darkly comedic, leaving the audience with more questions than answers. He has often collaborated with OBIE-winning director John Clancy, who has directed a number of Hopkins" plays since the 1990s. 2005 Scotsman Fringe First Award.
