In 1982, at the age of 18, Hopkins graduated from the
Williston Northampton School. Hopkins attended the musical theater program at
Carnegie Mellon University and studied acting at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Hopkins' first television credit was an appearance on the soap opera
One Life to Live, followed by a regular role on
Another World. In 1993, she moved to Los Angeles, where she joined
The Matrix Theatre Company. She spent weekends singing at The Pink in
Santa Monica, and later performed at The Cinegrill, The Gardina, and At My Place. During this period, her television credits included
Beverly Hills, 90210,
Murder, She Wrote,
The Practice,
Diagnosis: Murder,
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,
Star Trek: Voyager,
Spin City, and
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. In 1994, at the age of 30, Hopkins was cast in the
rock opera I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky by
Peter Sellars. She spent the next year traveling the world with the production, performing in Paris,
Hamburg,
Helsinki, and
Montreal, as well as at the
Edinburgh Festival, among other locales. In 2002, aged 38, Hopkins made her
Broadway debut in
Noises Off. She has also appeared in the
Lincoln Center benefit performance of
Anything Goes with
Patti LuPone under the Department Chair, Dr. John Fleming. Her husband, Jim Price, is also on the faculty at Texas State, where he is the Head of Playwriting. == Discography ==