Kaitlin Hopkins ’82
We caught up with Kaitlin Hopkins, head of the musical theatre program at Texas State University San Marcos, who is currently travelling between Texas and Chile where she is helping found the first musical theatre program in the country.
How long have you been teaching?
It’s sort of a weird answer, I’ve been coaching master classes on and off for 15 years. While I was working professionally it was something I loved to do.
The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival is a very famous college festival that travels around the country, breaking it down into 8 regions, and judging performances, and the regional winners then compete in the national finals in Washington…About 10 or 12 years ago they approached my husband and I, who is also a professional performer, and asked us to judge and teach master classes…It was something we started doing to give back and honestly we loved it, we just loved it. That was sort of the beginning of us realizing we were teachers.