Tony Hopkins
TONY HOPKINS is an actor, poet and storyteller, who was born in Washington, DC of African and Cherokee descent. He lived in Europe for some years and now lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
As an actor Tony has worked on stage, screen and television. Some of his stage roles include Captain Tench in Our Country's Good, Belize in Angels in America, Chephus Miles in the acclaimed African-American play, Home and multiple roles in the Antony Sher play, I.D. winner of the 2005 Chapman Tripp Production of the Year Award. He’s also enjoyed playing Teiresias in Antigone, Nathan the Seer in Hail to the Thief, Geppetto in Pinocchio, the King in The King Who Can't Laugh, Mr Deka D in Happy Birthday Mr Deka D, Iyer in the new Sri Lankan play, Serendipity which premiered at Bats Theatre in 2009 and Either-Neither Man in Muntu an African play at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. Then again at Toi Whakaari in 2010 he got to play Elisio in the German play Innocence.
His films include A Matter of life & Death and Amsterdamned, two Dutch films, as well as Peter Jackson's Brain Dead, The Frighteners and King Kong. His television work includes Ray Bradbury Theater, Cover Story, Hercules, the award winning TV3 drama Questions and recently in Rage on TV1 written and produced by Tom Scott.
Tony has directed a number of Baggage Co-op productions, including Baggage, which he co-wrote, Questions the 1999 Fringe award winning play, and Po@rt.nz, the art of poetry, the 2001 Fringe award winning show, in which he also performed his own poetry.
As a storyteller, he specialises in the telling of African and Native American stories, myths and legends as well as personal stories from his own life experiences. Tony has performed with his partner, Moira Wairama, throughout New Zealand as one of the Soul Food Tellers. He has also performed in Europe as well as in the USA.
He is co-founder of the Baggage Co-op which has been successfully producing theatre works for over a decade. Their most recent production was Te Haerenga, a journey of identity, which opened the 2010 season at Bats Theatre and was also performed at Pataka Museum as part of the 2010 Matariki Celebrations.
See OUR SHOWS for more information.
Tony is current chairman of the Baggage Arts Charitable Trust (BACT) and also works as a casual host at the National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa. (Te Papa)
TONY HOPKINS is an actor, poet and storyteller, who was born in Washington, DC of African and Cherokee descent. He lived in Europe for some years and now lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
As an actor Tony has worked on stage, screen and television. Some of his stage roles include Captain Tench in Our Country's Good, Belize in Angels in America, Chephus Miles in the acclaimed African-American play, Home and multiple roles in the Antony Sher play, I.D. winner of the 2005 Chapman Tripp Production of the Year Award. He’s also enjoyed playing Teiresias in Antigone, Nathan the Seer in Hail to the Thief, Geppetto in Pinocchio, the King in The King Who Can't Laugh, Mr Deka D in Happy Birthday Mr Deka D, Iyer in the new Sri Lankan play, Serendipity which premiered at Bats Theatre in 2009 and Either-Neither Man in Muntu an African play at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. Then again at Toi Whakaari in 2010 he got to play Elisio in the German play Innocence.
His films include A Matter of life & Death and Amsterdamned, two Dutch films, as well as Peter Jackson's Brain Dead, The Frighteners and King Kong. His television work includes Ray Bradbury Theater, Cover Story, Hercules, the award winning TV3 drama Questions and recently in Rage on TV1 written and produced by Tom Scott.
Tony has directed a number of Baggage Co-op productions, including Baggage, which he co-wrote, Questions the 1999 Fringe award winning play, and Po@rt.nz, the art of poetry, the 2001 Fringe award winning show, in which he also performed his own poetry.
As a storyteller, he specialises in the telling of African and Native American stories, myths and legends as well as personal stories from his own life experiences. Tony has performed with his partner, Moira Wairama, throughout New Zealand as one of the Soul Food Tellers. He has also performed in Europe as well as in the USA.
He is co-founder of the Baggage Co-op which has been successfully producing theatre works for over a decade. Their most recent production was Te Haerenga, a journey of identity, which opened the 2010 season at Bats Theatre and was also performed at Pataka Museum as part of the 2010 Matariki Celebrations.
See OUR SHOWS for more information.
Tony is current chairman of the Baggage Arts Charitable Trust (BACT) and also works as a casual host at the National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa. (Te Papa)