With her TV show about to debut, the author and artist has a lot to say about the journey of pursuing dreams, when we hop on a phone call. She's been talking to journalists and promoting her eight-episode series set to premiere onon Oct. 13. It's a big moment for her, and not one you'd expect to associate with failure. But that's exactly what Shraya, an artist, author, musician and academic, intends to share with audiences.
Ahead of the show's premiere, I spoke with Shraya, now in her 40s, about her comfort level with failure, encouraging others to welcome it — and why embracing success is still challenging.You've shared your story as a play, a book and now a TV series. Why do you think this story will resonate now?that it's been able to have so many iterations.
Exactly!… Increasingly, it feels harder and harder to talk about being a failure when you have a TV show. It's a strange juxtaposition.book, Canadian Stage artistic director Brendan Healy said one of the things he learned from your performance is about owning our failures. What does owning failure mean to you?