SELECTED PROJECTS
PODCAST WITH RAISINS
An eight-episode podcast that spanned the years 2015 - 2020; mostly conversations with her brother or musings while walking. Sheila recently posted the episodes again, after accidentally deleting them and losing them (she thought, forever). Now you can listen to it “wherever you get your podcasts.”
Episode 1: In Montreal with David (January 2015)
Episode 2: The Road Narrows as You Go (January 2015)
Episode 3: In New York (Bonus Episode, June 2015)
Episode 4: At the Cottage (August 2018)
Episode 5: The Play Reading (Bonus Episode, August 2018)
Episode 6: Stockholm Syndrome (October 2018)
Episode 7: In Denver with Cusk (June 2019)
Episode 8: Back in Montreal (October 2020)
Episode 9: The Middle of the Night (December 2020)
Episode 10: Margaux (April 2022)
ALL OUR HAPPY DAYS ARE STUPID
Kayla Lorette and Becky Johnson in All Our Happy Days are Stupid at Videofag in Toronto.
Sheila Heti’s struggles with her play All Our Happy Days are Stupid was fictionalized in her 2010 novel, How Should a Person Be? In 2013, the play was mounted by Jordan Tannahill at Toronto's Videofag, and then produced by McSweeney's to sold-out runs at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, and New York's The Kitchen. With ten original songs by Dan Bejar / Destroyer.
The cast included Erin Brubacher, Alexander Carson, Henri Faberge, Nick Hune-Brown, Kayla Lorette, Becky Johnson, Jon McCurley, Michael McManus, Meghan Swaby, Naomi Skwarna, Anne Wessels, Carl Wilson and Lorna Wright, with Nancy Bocock.
The play was later published as a small book by McSweeney’s.
TRAMPOLINE HALL
Trampoline Hall Set by Leanne Shapton, New York
In late 2001, Sheila Heti and her friend Misha Glouberman created the barroom lecture series Trampoline Hall, where three people deliver lectures on subjects outside their areas of expertise, then take questions from the audience. The show still running monthly in Toronto, at The Garrison.
THE METAPHYSICAL POLL
In Spring 2008, Sheila Heti created The Metaphysical Poll, a blog designed to collect the sleeping dreams people were having about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during the Democratic primaries (click on their names to view the blogs). The poll received hundreds of dreams from Americans, and seemed to predict Obama's win.
Read some of the press in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Economist, and the LA Times.