Described
by spoken-word pioneer and founder of the Boston Progress Arts
Collective, Giles Li, as "carrying on the legacy of the great
storytellers across generations” BROWNSTAR is a spoken-word duo based
at the origin of the American revolution: in Boston, Massachusetts. A
rising star in the Asian-American artistic community, BROWNSTAR merges
high-energy comedy, personal memoir, and science fiction to ignite a
discourse about the South Asian American community and give a
generation its voice and song.
BROWNSTAR bursts forth from the pens of poet-performers Pushkar NORTH
STAR Sharma and Sathya SOUTH STAR Sridharan, who joined together in
2007. The duo has performed at universities and poetry venues across
the US, and will be premiering their stage show FASTER THAN THE SPEED
OF WHITE at the New York City International Fringe Theatre Festival in
August 2010. BROWNSTAR produced UNIFICATION 2009 a joint celebration of
the Indian and Pakistani Independence Days in Manhattan in August 2009
and will reprise the show in New York in 2010; they have shared the
stage with the likes of Def Poets Kelly Tsai and Reggie Cabico, emcees
Magnetic North, Taiyo Na, and iLL-Literacy, and comedians Hari
Kondabolu and Aparna Nancherla.