Ahon Gooptu

Ahon Gooptu is a playwright-actor, theatre producer, and performance studies scholar. He is drawn to interdisciplinary collaborations that tell queer, brown, and im/migrant narratives, often playing with memory in non-linear ways. He has worked with Steppenwolf in Chicago, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Taproot Theatre in Seattle, Treasure Trunk Theatre in New York, Farmers Alley Theatre in Kalamazoo, and Ranan, The Red Curtain, and Pickle Factory Dance Foundation in Kolkata, among other notable companies. He is a founding collective member of Curl, co-founder and former Managing Producer of Side B Society, and a former Artistic Associate of Make/Shift Theatre Company. His publications include Labor Day Reunion (Writers Workshop, forthcoming in 2026) and All That Glistens (Grinnell College Press, 2021). Recent theatre credits include Seasons of Love, Item, Looking For, Taramandal! Ek Naya Safar, and Subject for a Short Story, among others.