Kirsten Hopkins

New York based actor, singer, teaching artist, and now occasional writer. Originally from Los Angeles, attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theatre major, then earned a BFA in theatre from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Member of Actors' Equity. Frequent participant at The PlayGround Experiment, an actor/writer collective in NYC.

New York based actor, singer, teaching artist, and now occasional writer. Originally from Los Angeles, attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theatre major, then earned a BFA in theatre from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Member of Actors' Equity. Frequent participant at The PlayGround Experiment, an actor/writer collective in NYC.

Scripts

Honeybees

by Kirsten Hopkins

2
Cast Size
5—8
Genre
comedy,
movement/physical

Our Queen is sex-obsessed
The worker over-works
A drone is trying to spread the word
That nearby dangers lurks!

Our colony’s collapsing!
We must all save the hive!
Bee bold, bee brave, bee different
So we can stay alive!

Daffy, dancing bees go stinger to stinger in this play of peril, pollen & puppets.

Our Queen is sex-obsessed
The worker over-works
A drone is trying to spread the word
That nearby dangers lurks!

Our colony’s collapsing!
We must all save the hive!
Bee bold, bee brave, bee different
So we can stay alive!

Daffy, dancing bees go stinger to stinger in this play of peril, pollen & puppets.

Tree Sitter

by Kirsten Hopkins

Cast Size
1
Genre
drama,
faith-based,
political,
young audiences,
zoom

A two minute-monologue: An environmental activist, a tree sitter, speaks to a reporter in the tree (during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic) about why they are there.

A two minute-monologue: An environmental activist, a tree sitter, speaks to a reporter in the tree (during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic) about why they are there.

Florence the Firefly

by Kirsten Hopkins

4
Cast Size
6—17
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical

Florence is a plucky little firefly who wants her life adventure to begin, which she thinks means mating and raising little larvae. But only male fireflies can fly, so females have to wait for a male to come to them--and no male has been interested! Fed up, Florence leaps off her leaf to the forest floor below to try her luck elsewhere. On her journey she meets many different creatures of the forest (a lonely...

Florence is a plucky little firefly who wants her life adventure to begin, which she thinks means mating and raising little larvae. But only male fireflies can fly, so females have to wait for a male to come to them--and no male has been interested! Fed up, Florence leaps off her leaf to the forest floor below to try her luck elsewhere. On her journey she meets many different creatures of the forest (a lonely cricket, a mooning moth, a skunk with a kooky streak, frat-boy cicadas, and an Eagles-quoting eagle among others), and along the way learns that maybe mating isn't the only way to have a great life adventure. A one act for adults with a children's theater aesthetic. 

Florence has been adapted into an animated film. See supporting video links to watch.

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