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After living in NYC for several years, working as a performer on everything from original plays to a national tour, I now call the Washington, D.C. theatre community my home. Here I’ve been fortunate to work with several award-winning companies including The Folger, Constellation, Rorschach, Taffety Punk, Longacre Lea, Keegan and We Happy Few. In addition I’m an educator both in the US and abroad having taught Shakespeare and Musical Theatre workshops to students at Cambridge University in England, and as a founding instructor of The Berridge Conservatory in Normandy, France. My direction and choreography credits include fourteen shows over six summers with Festival 56 in Illinois, five shows for Providence College in Rhode Island, multiple local collegiate productions for George Washington University and Catholic University, three box-office smashing shows in Michigan and an award-winning production of Mamma Mia! for Ozark Actors Theatre in Missouri. Most recently I directed Tinsel & Turkey for Cornwell Theatre Company and Merrily We Roll Along is in the throws of a nearly sold-out run at Keegan Theatre.

I’ve been honored to teach as an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University for the last three years. Additionally, I serve as the Head of the Musical Theatre Dance Department at the Metropolitan School of the Arts in Alexandria, VA. 

My degrees include a Masters of Fine Arts from George Washington University and The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts.

"Let’s talk about what’s great in this play: the incandescent performance of Jennifer Hopkins as Beth. She is fully committed to her character from the first moment of the edgy, sexy conversation between her and James Shaw which opens the play, and there is never a moment thereafter where we don’t know who she is.  And who she is is complicated: a bundle of anxiety who is aroused by her own fear. She snarls and stalks, but is at the same time haunted. She is a ticking time bomb, set for sixty seconds. She, like several other characters, must make a rapid transition toward the end of the second Act, but she has laid her foundation from the get-go with her twitchy portrayal of this unique woman."

- DC Theatre Scene

"As Lady Macbeth often is, Jennifer J. Hopkins is a scene stealer as Elizabeth Wright Macilwraith. She slinks across the stage like the serpent under the innocent flower, constricting each character in turn, until she suffocates herself. Elizabeth’s moments of uncertainty are where Hopkins truly shines."
- Maryland Theatre Guide

"Jennifer is blessed with a distinctive and expressive voice – sometimes a cello, sometimes a purring feline."

- DCist

"Hopkins is at turns warm, cryptic, and disarmingly funny…delivering an emotional gut-punch."

-DC Theatre Scene

"Behrman imbued Marion with a kaleidoscope of colors and shades, so there is more to her than promiscuity and a laissez-faire attitude. She is also sensitive, loyal, persuasive, sensual, and altogether fascinating. I would think an actress would trade in her grandmother to play such a role. At American Century, Jennifer J. Hopkins doesn’t have to disturb her grandmother at all; she just needs to keep doing what she is doing. Marion’s wanderlust, joie de vivre, and considerable charms are made tangible in Hopkins’ adept portrayal.

- DC Theatre Scene