Academia

In 2009 Kaitlin created the BFA Musical Theatre program at Texas State University, currently ranked in the top 10 musical theatre programs in the nation.

As an educator, she received the 2016 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching from Texas State University and was recognized by Broadway Dreams Foundation as an innovative voice in education, and one of the 6 top women educators in the performing arts.

In 2012, in collaboration with the ProJazz Institute Hopkins created and launched the first musical theater-training program in Chile. In addition, she currently serves as an External Examiner for The Sharjah Performing Arts Academy in Dubai, on the Artistic Advisory board for North Texas Performing Arts, and as Artistic Director for Nexus Musical Theatre Summer Intensive at Texas State. 

​Hopkins also consults and teaches master classes all over the world.
     Kaitlin Hopkins is a great teacher precisely because she is also a great artist. Her abilities to communicate — whether as an actor, teacher or mentor — are unsurpassed.

​~ Andrew Lippa, award-winning composer
      She is in a word Stellar. Imagine bringing in a master teacher to work with your students that can speak on the craft of performing from every single angle? From student performers of both stage and screen, from Hollywood to New York Kaitlin will make you and your students feel like you have been given a fresh outlook on everything arts related. Her very specific education on mental health of young performers is something I have never experienced with any other educator.

~ Heather Biddle -Head Theatre Director JJ Pearce High School