AHON GOOPTU
Actor | Writer | Collaborator | Scholar
NOW / NEXT
RECENT PROJECTS
June 2022
July - Aug 2022
Aug 2022
Aug - Oct 2022
Aug - Oct 2022
Oct 2022
Nov 2022
Co-produced If I Had Things My Way, a virtual month-long celebration of Pride, for Make/Shift Theatre Company.
Workshopped a developmental production of my new play Seasons of Love, directed by Katy Lai Roy, in collaboration with The Red Curtain (Kolkata, India).
Premiered a filmed excerpt of Seasons of Love, directed by Sophiyaa Nayar, for Definition Theatre's Amplify Series Two.
Developed my new play Labor Day Reunion, directed by Andres Larrea, in collaboration with Side B Society.
Dramaturged Sweet Charity, directed by Lynn McNutt (Florida State University mainstage).
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.
Performed as King Asshole in a staged reading of Cancel Me, directed by Meghan Nelson, in collaboration with Side B Society.
NOW
Aug 2022 - April 2023
Oct 2022 - April 2023
Developing Aim and Ignite, a new jukebox musical with songs by fun.
Book by Ahon Gooptu and Audrey Boyle.
New musical arrangements by Jake Jordan.
Workshop production in April 2023 directed by Linoï Chemla.
Dramaturging The Secret in the Wings, directed by Rouba Palmer (Florida State University mainstage).
NEXT
March 2023
March 2023
Spring 2023
Summer 2023
Presenting my paper, "Negotiating Nowhere Nation: Embodying Partition as Affect in Ms. Marvel" for the Emerging Scholars Symposia at the 43rd Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference (Minneapolis, MN).
Developing Subject for a Short Story and staging it for the annual Fringe Festival as part of the Dramatists Play Lab at the 43rd Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference (Minneapolis, MN).
Writing "The Hungry Women: Performing Gendered and Familial Desire in Titus Andronicus" for Shakespeare Adaptations in Indian Cinema, an edited volume by Nishi Pulugurtha (upcoming, 2023/2024).
Workshopping the pilot for Out of the Woods, a new limited series that reimagines fairytale characters in a contemporary land without magic.
Teaser blurb:
Hansel and Gretel, Little Red and the Wolf, Cinderella and stepsister Anastasia 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?