AHON GOOPTU
Actor | Writer | Producer | Collaborator | Scholar
NOW / NEXT
RECENT PROJECTS
JUNE 2022
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Co-produced If I Had Things My Way, a virtual month-long celebration of Pride, for Make/Shift Theatre Company.
JULY - AUGUST 2022
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Workshopped a developmental production of my new play Seasons of Love, directed by Katy Lai Roy, for The Red Curtain (Kolkata, India).
AUGUST 2022
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Premiered a filmed excerpt of Seasons of Love, directed by Sophiyaa Nayar, for Definition Theatre's Amplify Series Two.
AUGUST - OCTOBER 2022
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Developed my new play Labor Day Reunion, directed by Andres Larrea, for Side B Society.
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Dramaturged Sweet Charity, directed by Lynn McNutt, for Florida State University.
OCTOBER 2022
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Presented my paper, "Nowhere Nation: Cruising Citizenship and Learning Brown Queerness, a Glee-ful Match Made in Heaven" for the 'Beyond Binaries: Fieldnotes from Queer South Asia' panel at the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
NOVEMBER 2022
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Performed as King Asshole in a staged reading of Cancel Me, directed by Meghan Nelson, for Side B Society.
FEBRUARY 2023
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Co-produced 24-on-29 Chekhov Fest 2023 for Make/Shift Theatre Company and also performed as Siobhan/Silvi in The Weight of Memory by Etan Klau, directed by Lily Webb.
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Co-produced Side B Debuts, a new play showcase, for Side B Society.
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Produced A Trumpet Show, a new devised piece by Brianne Jackson and Allison Crawford, for Side B Society.
MARCH 2023
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Co-produced The Aliens by Annie Baker, directed by Cameron Schmitt, for Side B Society.
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Presented my paper, "Embodying Partition as Intergenerational and Transnational Affect in Ms. Marvel" for the Emerging Scholars Symposia at the 43rd Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
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Developed Subject for a Short Story for a staged reading at the annual Fringe Festival as part of the Dramatists Play Lab at the 43rd Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
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Co-produced How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them by Halley Feiffer, directed by Linoï Chemla, for Side B Society.
OCTOBER 2022 - APRIL 2023
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Dramaturged The Secret in the Wings, directed by Rouba Palmer, for Florida State University.
APRIL 2023
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Organized Side B Spring Soirée, a fundraiser gala for Side B Society.
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Wrote and performed in Looking For, devised with Jonah Harmon, Hannah Fazio, and Rebecca Curran, for Florida State Fringe 2023.
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Co-produced and performed as Yusef El-Fayoumy in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Meghan Nelson, for Side B Society.
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MAY - JUNE 2023
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Premiere of a filmed performance of Seasons of Love, directed by Laia Comas, for Lime Arts Productions' Twenty by Twenty Fringe 2023.
- Seasons of Love announced as a Semifinalist for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival by Playwrights Foundation.
JULY 2023
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Performing as Remi (lead) in Do Me a Favor, a short film written and directed by Krsytel Sanon.
SUMMER 2023
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Completing new drafts of the pilot for Out of the Woods, a new limited series that reimagines fairytale characters in a contemporary land without magic.
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Teaser blurb: Hansel and Gretel, Little Red and the Wolf, and Cinderella are just humans living like the rest of us in our world. Here, there are no woods, no magic, no fairy godmother. But family trauma, mental illness, a big bad wolf? You don’t need a storybook for those. Will they find their happy endings in this life?
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Writing the screenplay for a new feature, Second Draft.
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Outlining a new play, Madam Said.
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Planning field conversations for the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)'s annual conference in Providence, RI (November 2023).
NEXT
UPCOMING IN 2023
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Publication in Shakespeare Adaptations in Indian Cinema, an edited volume by Nishi Pulugurtha: "The Hungry Women: Performing Gendered and Familial Desire in Titus Andronicus" (solicited by Bloomsbury).