This trilogy of plays is loosely based on the Hindu trinity of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer and Shiva the Destroyer. The deities are displaced into contemporary immigrants in the West, creating a new cosmology for the Indian diaspora, immigrants and anyone who doesn t fit into the space that society has prescribed for them. Each play is in a different style: stand-up comedy routine, girl-gang thriller, post-colonial fantasy, and, while they can stand alone, they also coexist in a common universe where displacement, identity, post-colonialism and puberty are explored through the lenses of creation, survival and destruction. BRAHMAN/I: A One-Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show (1m., 1 either gender) is a stand-up comedy routine that takes on history, mythology, gender roles and high school through the inimitable comic lens of Brahman/i, a performer tethered by neither gender nor culture. The Chronicles of Kalki (1m., 3w.) is a comic-book infused girl-gang thriller chronicling the adventures of Kalki, a young girl who may or may not be the final avatar of Vishnu, come to rid the world of demons and evil. Shiv (3m., 1w.) is a theatrical science fiction fantasy exploring the psychological residue of post-colonialism as a young woman embarks on adventure and romance and searches for her future on a bent-up old mattress she uses for a ship

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