Ned Hopkins | male
Favorite genres
Ballet, Choral, Classical, Comedy, Dance, Drama, Modern, Musical, Opera, Pantomime, Period Drama, Revue, ShakespearePlaying Age
60 - 100
Build
medium
Height
1.778
Skills
Character roles, singing
Small scale works. Also: lecturing, informal adjudicatiing, advising inexperienced directors etc
Design only
Professional work
RECENT ACTING: Films: Susan (London Film School), Bloody Mary (TV Choice Productions). Plays/Shows: Under Milk Wood, A Doll's House, The Dining Room, Cowardy Custard, I Take Your Hand in Mine. Directing: The Hollow Crown, The Portrait of a Lady, Oleana, Design for Living, Vita & Virginia
*RECENT PLAYWRITING - Full-length: Earnest Endeavours (Theatre 62), The Portrait of a Lady (Bromley Little Theatre). Shorter professional plays produced: After Life (Green Room Theatre Company/Virtual Theatre Company), Maggy, Franklyn (Green Room Theatre Company)
IN REHEARSAL: All the World Away incorporated in the entertainment No Way Back - a VAD's Journey by John Drewry and Ned Hopkins
*CONTACT ME FOR ELECTRONIC COPIES. Royalities waived for non-commercial production (gardencourt@live.com)
Training
WEST MIDLANDS COLLEGE of EDUCATION - DRAMATIC ART (3 years) with Distinction
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY - (BA.Hons) with a Distinction in DRAMA
Attendance at various University Drama and Playwriting summer schools.
Am also an Associate of the Drama Board (ADB)
Additional skills
Primarily a writer these days, dividing my time between theatre journalism (mainly for Sardines) and writing plays. My latest play A Lot of it About has been accepted by Organised Chaos (an Arts Council/Lottery funded professional company based in Manchester) for production early next year.
