"His is a sincerely odd likability, and his gentle, intellectual streak mixes pleasantly with an underlying mischievousness... Hoptman's show makes for a decidedly odd and pleasurable Thursday night out." --St Paul Pioneer Press
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Ari Hoptman featured in a Star-Tribune profile: "Something in his ability to scrutinize complex patterns of language demonstrates a native curiosity that helps explain his capacity for quirky sideways glances at the world around him."
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Hello, Dear Visitor!

Hope all is well, whoever you may be. Why don't you have a seat and stay a while here at my little website until you have to leave or you get bored?

Well, it has been a long, long while since my last update. Sorry about that. But anyway, I thought I could tell you something about what's happening now.

I spent the springtime working under the direction of the wonderful Peter Moore in two shows, and then went up north to do three plays in summer stock (Born Yesterday, Last of the Red-Hot Lovers, Little Shop of Horrors). Had some fun, and met a very fun little duck named Gobo.

I'm on a little break now, but things will start up again in December with the "1940s Radio Hour," which will be at Hennepin Stages in the very heart of downtown Minneapolis. See put-upon producer and radio host Clifton Feddington (that's me) try to get his merry band of singers, musicians, and comedians together for the Christmas, 1942 edition of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade. A great cast, with a lot of good songs and merriment! A fun outing for the holidays!

Click here for Ari's theatrical resume.

Fun facts about Ari:
Favorite car: none
Favorite airplane: none
Favorite insect: the ant, if I had to choose
Favorite grammatical term: a tie between "right aux gapping" and "the perfect passive paraphrastic"
Position on freedom of speech: in favor of it
Favorite novel: "You Need Help, Charlie Brown"
Favorite actor from Liverpool: the late Leonard
Rossiter
Favorite Marx Brother: Groucho
Favorite way to spell the word "etymology": without an "n"
Most and least prestigious characters yet played: Sir Joseph Porter, KCB; Man #2
Does Ari know former Monkee guitarist Peter Tork? No