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Name
  
Cynthia Hopkins

Role
  
Composer


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Albums
  
The Truth: A Tragedy

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Obie Award for Performance, Obie Award for Design

Similar
  
Dan Zanes, Paul Lazar, Julia Wolfe, Bill Morrison, Sonia de los Santos

Music group
  
Dan Zanes and Friends

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Cynthia Hopkins is an American performance artist, composer, and musician.

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Performance work

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She has written, composed, and performed five works of performance art at a number of theaters around the world, including St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, The Kitchen in Manhattan, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On December 21, 2012 she performed during and had her music performed on the John Hodgman: Ragnarok special, which was streamed on Netflix on June 20, 2013. Her work, This Clement World, was reviewed in The New York Times by Jason Zinoman and by Charles Isherwood.

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In addition Hopkins' work as a solo performance artist, she regularly collaborates with Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar of the Big Dance Theater and acts in other theatrical pieces. This work has included Alan Smithee Directed This Play (BAM Next Wave Festival 2015) and Ich, Kürbisgeist (The Kitchen 2014).

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In her work as a performer, Hopkins sings and plays the accordion, guitar, piano, and the musical saw. As a musician, she has self-produced five full-length albums.

Discography

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  • The Truth: A Tragedy (2010)
  • The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success) (2009)
  • Must Don’t Whip ‘Um (2008)
  • Accidental Nostalgia (2005)
  • Alas Alack (2002)
  • Devotionals (2001)
  • Hooker (2000)
  • Gloria Deluxe (1999)
  • Awards and Fellowships

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  • Bessie Award
  • Obie Award (two-time winner)
  • Alpert Award in Theater (2007)
  • Guggenheim Fellowship (2010)

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    References

    Cynthia Hopkins Wikipedia


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