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CYNTHIA HOPKINS is the recipient of the 2007 Alpert Award in Theater, honoring her work as a writer, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, and theater artist. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the ensemble company Accinosco - a collective of performing artists, designers, and musicians dedicated to creating groundbreaking original works that meld music, text, technical and theatrical design, and video with unbelievable fact and outrageous fiction - with whom she has created two full-length works: Accidental Nostalgia, which premiered in 2004 (for which Ms. Hopkins received a 2005 Bessie Award); and Must Don't Whip 'Um, a prequel to Accidental Nostalgia which premiered in 2007 (winner of a 2007 Bessie Award for design). These works feature the band Gloria Deluxe which Ms. Hopkins formed in 1999 and which has since produced six full-length albums and performed at numerous venues in New York City and elsewhere. Ms. Hopkins has also created solo music/theater works including Tsimtsum, a piece commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop for the May 2006 'Sourcing Stravinsky Festival'; and Song Before Love Songs (a post-apocalyptic requiem for the human race), a composition commissioned by Bang on a Can which premiered in February 2005. In addition, Ms. Hopkins has worked as a composer, musician, and performer for many projects, including Big Dance Theater's /Antigone/, Shunkin, and Another Telepathic Thing (for which she received a 2001 Bessie award for composition and a 2000 OBIE award for performance); and Ridge Theater's production of Mac Wellman's at jennie richee (for which she won a 2001 Obie Award as part of the collaborative team). She is currently at work on Part III of the The Accidental Trilogy (of which Accidental Nostalgia is Part I and Must Don?t Whip 'Um is Part II), titled The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success), which is scheduled to premiere in April 2009 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN and in May/June 2009 at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY.
Bio as of October, 2008.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient - 2004
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