AHON GOOPTU
Writer | Actor | Collaborator | Scholar
NOW / NEXT
RECENT PROJECTS
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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Performed as Remi (lead) in Do Me a Favor, a short film written and directed by Krsytel Sanon.
AUGUST 2023 - JULY 2024
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Worked as a Teaching Artist for Treasure Trunk Theatre in Brooklyn, NY.
NOVEMBER 2023
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Planned field conversations as well as affinity group conversations addressing the situation in Gaza for the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)'s annual conference in Providence, RI.
DECEMBER 2023 - APRIL 2024
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Co-directed and choreographed Just Another High School Musical: A Musical Theatre Revue at Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School.
JANUARY 2024
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Wrote a new solo show, Young, Dumb, and Full of Cum.
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Interviewed for The Red Curtain International's Theatre Heals Adda, talking about the development of Seasons of Love.
DECEMBER 2024
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Premiere of Item, a new dance-drama-drag show, presented by curl. and The Urban Theatre Project, Kolkata.
NOW
ONGOING
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Preparing
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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.
NEXT
UPCOMING IN 2025
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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).
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Music video for a new song by Tizita (lead performer).
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World premieres of the It Takes Three family series in Kolkata:
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The Day Of (following a workshop)