Episode 57: Adopting Baby Calvin and Letting Life Never Be the Same Again with Theater Artist Beth Ann Hopkins

Beth Ann Hopkins is an Actor, Singer, Director, Foley Artist and Country Mouse. After feeling embraced by the Carroll Gardens community of Brooklyn, she decided to co-found a theater company there entitled, SMITH STREET STAGE with her now husband Jonathan Hopkins. Twelve years, 20+ production and hundreds of performances later, she has been blessed to work on Queens, Fools, Warriors and Lovers and she wouldn't have it any other way. When honing her own directorial style, she enjoys the movement of theater, using View Points, Suzuki, Modern Dance, acrobatics, fabrics and a variety of other physical techniques. She longs for a future when live theater is well funded, when Artists have the time and space to create thoughtful pieces of work, and when the Parks Department will let her hang sails from the trees. Today, Daniella talks with Beth Ann Hopkins about adopting her son and her experience in the theater industry! Daniella and Beth Ann will dive into how she met her husband working in the theater (1:51), her adopted son Calvin Dean Hopkins (4:33), and making the decision to adopt (10:18). Beth Ann will also share her experience of her son’s birth and adoption protocol (15:40). Beth Ann goes in depth about directing Measure for Measure in the current political climate (25:15), and her consciousness of her son's race (34:40). Daniella and Beth Ann discuss mothering as a community (44:50) and raising kids in NYC (48:20). Beth Ann gives us her thoughts on adopting older children (53:38), and her parting words for anyone looking into adoption (1:06:39). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices