CJ Hopkins
CJ Hopkins | |
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| Born | Miami, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, author |
CJ Hopkins is an American playwright, novelist, and political satirist. Among his works are the plays Horse Country and The Extremists.
Career
Early works
Hopkins' early plays and experimental theatre texts were first produced in New York City during the 1990s at Off-Off-Broadway theatres including HERE Arts Center, the Ohio Theatre, Theatre for the New City, The Present Company Theatorium[1] 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.[2]
Horse Country
His 1992 play, Horse Country, had its UK premiere at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It won a Scotsman Fringe First for New Writing and the 2002 Scotsman Best of the Fringe Firsts Award,[3][4] and later went on to win the 2004 Best of The Adelaide Fringe Award. Following its London premiere at Riverside Studios,[5] Horse Country toured the UK, Australia, Canada and The Netherlands.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Later works
Hopkins' 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.[13] The US premiere was presented at 59E59 Theaters[14] 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 version of which was staged in the university's Philological Library.[15]
His 2009 play, The Extremists, commissioned by 7 Stages and directed by Walter D. Asmus, premiered in Berlin and Atlanta in 2010.[16] The UK premiere was presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A 2018 production of the play was produced by Clark University and directed by Raymond Munro.[citation needed]
His writings have appeared in The Unz Review[17] and CounterPunch.[18]
Novels
- Zone 23, (self published, 2017) ISBN 978-3000555268[19]
Plays
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- Horse Country, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 0413774074 (2004)
- screwmachine/eyecandy, Broadway Play Publishing Inc., ISBN 0881453382 (2007)
- The Extremists, Broadway Play Publishing Inc., ISBN 0881454419 (2010)
- The Insurgency, Bordercrossing Berlin, Verlagshaus J. Frank (2006)
- cunnilinguistics
- How To Entertain the Rich
- The Installation
- A Place Like This[20]
References
- ^ "Place Like This, A | Off-Off-Broadway | reviews, cast and info". TheaterMania.
- ^ "Program History/Artist Alumni". Mabou Mines. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "The Scottish Playground | The Village Voice". The Village Voice. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ Sumi, Glenn (27 March 2003). "Horse country". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Edinburgh Horse Country Rides In for London Double". WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "PAST SHOWS - HORSE COUNTRY by CJ Hopkins 2002 (USA)". www.theatretoursinternational.com. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Was that a seal I saw you with last night?". The Globe and Mail. 18 April 2003. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Harbourfront Centre - World Stage 2012 | History of World Stage". www.harbourfrontcentre.com. Harbourfront Centre. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ http://fringevault.com.au/mini_sites/awards/2004
- ^ http://theatreguide.tripod.com/htm_events/reviews_fringe_2004.htm
- ^ https://www.artsprojects.com.au/tours/clancy-productions-horse-country
- ^ https://8weekly.nl/special/theater-specials/dagelijks-verslag-noorderzon-festival-noorderzon-verblindt/
- ^ Adam, Karla (August 29, 2005). "Top Prizes at Edinburgh Fringe" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "screwmachine/eyecandy | Theater | reviews, guides, things to do, film". Time Out New York.
- ^ "Bibliothek als Bühne". www.fu-berlin.de. Free University of Berlin. September 21, 2006.
- ^ Holman, Curt. "Theater Review - The Extremists disarms weapons of mass distraction". Creative Loafing. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ January 28, C. J. Hopkins •. "C.J. Hopkins Archive". The Unz Review. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "CJ Hopkins". CounterPunch. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Rebelion. La "hitlerización" de Jeremy Corbyn (entre otros)". www.rebelion.org. Rebelion.org. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ "OOB's Theatorium Gets Out of A Place Like This, June 17". Playbill. 2000. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
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- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- Postmodern theatre
- Screenwriting instructors
- American male novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Writers from Miami
- Novelists from Florida