Cafe Daughter

Kenneth T. Williams is a Cree playwright, filmmaker and journalist from the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan. His plays Cafe Daughter, Thunderstick, Bannock Republic, Suicide Notes, Gordon Winter, In Care, Three Little Birds and The Herd have been professionally produced across Canada. Ken teaches at the University of Alberta, where he was the first Indigenous writer to earn an MFA in playwriting. He resides in Edmonton.

PJ Prudat loves cake, hats and poetry and taking her dog out for walks in nature. She is from northern Saskatchewan, a proud Métis-Cree & French/Scandinavian-descended actor and a writer of plays, poetry and creative fiction. As an artist, PJ is passionate about Indigenous perspectives, experiences and untold stories connected to this land. She is a Co-Creator in Residence at the Theatre Centre, a Creator in Residence at Nightswimming, and an RBC Resident Creator at Canadian Stage. PJ has performed as a company actor at both the National Arts Centre English Theatre and the Shaw Festival, and has toured ground-breaking Indigenous shows extensively across the country, including this beloved work, Café Daughter nationally and across the Yukon. She has also been held and upheld space as Playwright-in-Rez for Native Earth Performing Arts. Kinanaskomitin.