# Labor Day Reunion

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2026/05/27/labor-day-reunion/
- Published: 2026-05-27T21:37:56+00:00
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**Author: **Ahon Gooptu[⌊A sample cover of the book: midnight blue handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Labour-Day-Reunion.jpeg)
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Pages:** 66 **Year of Publication:** 2026 **Price:** ₹300 / $12 (USD) **ISBN:** 
978-81-995932-7-5 (9788199593275)

_**About the Author**_
 Ahon Gooptu is drawn to interdisciplinary collaborations
for telling queer, brown, and im/migrant narratives that play with memory in non-
linear ways. Born and raised in Kolkata, India — where he currently resides and 
works as a playwright, actor, and theatre producer — Ahon has found semblances of
home in New York, Illinois, Iowa, Washington, Connecticut, and Florida in the US.
He trained at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and holds an MA in Theatre and Performance
Research from Florida State University and a BA in Theatre and English from Grinnell
College.

Among other companies, he has worked with Steppenwolf in Chicago, 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. He is founding collective member of Curl, co-founder
and former Managing Producer of Side B Society, and former Artistic Associate of
Make/Shift Theatre Company.

Ahon has published a collection of short plays, _All That Glistens_ (Grinnell College
Press), which includes _Labor Day_, an early iteration of _Labor Day Reunion_ (Kolkata,
Tallahassee). Other playwriting credits include _Item_ (Kolkata, Chennai), _Seasons
of Love_ (New York, Chicago, Kolkata), _Looking For_ (Tallahassee), _Taramandal!
Ek Naya Safar_ (Sandy Moffett Commission for India/USA/Japan co-production), _Subject
for a Short Story_ (Minneapolis), and _at the end of the tunnel_ (Grinnell).

You can visit his website [here](https://www.ahongooptu.com/).

_**About the Play**_
 **_Labor Day Reunion _**is a 21st-century memory play set 
in Chicago. Three friends find love and connection within each other, until they’re
compelled to reckon with questions concerning their identity, queerness, and the
very root of their relationship with one another.

_2006. Amidst an uncertain world, Sachi is preparing to give birth. Josh, the father,
is running late to the hospital. Amari, Sachi’s nurse, negotiates news about his
family’s future in the US with the stress of an increasingly complicated birth. 
Each questions their belonging in the world outside the delivery room._

 

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