PJ Prudat was born in a fierce snowstorm near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan (Treaty 6). She is a proud Métis~nehiyaw~saulteaux, a traditional ceremonial helper, poet, writer, director, arts educator, and children’s literary author.  PJ is a daughter of the fur trade; her matrilineal ancestors, four generations back, travelled by dog team, were buffalo hunters, Résistance Fighters, and Treaty Six Hereditary Chief signatories. 

PJ holds Artistic Residencies with Nightswimming, the Theatre Centre and previously with Native Earth Performing Arts.  With over thirty years of professional work on stage, PJ has toured luminous IBPOC-creative-led shows nationwide. She is among the first ever Indigenous Kwe/women to hold space as a Company Actor at the National Arts Centre and the Shaw Festival:

(the Unnatural and Accidental Women, Angelique, Moonlodge, Twelfth Night, Anne and Gilbert, Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, a Soldier’s Tale, Copper Thunderbird) and the Shaw Festival (Saint Joan, Wilde Tales, a Christmas Carol).  

Elsewhere: Niizh (Native Earth), Bentboy, the Blue Planet (Young People’s Theatre),  Iphigenia and the Furies (Saga Collectif/Architect/TPM), solo show Café Daughter (Blyth, & Native Earth/ National and Yukon tours), Ministry of Grace (Belfry), Everything I Couldn’t Tell You (SpiderBones/ Riser Festival), the solo show Moonlodge (Urban Ink/ a Jesse Richardson nominee), Cleo in Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare in the Ruins), Saltbaby, free as injuns, Almighty Voice and His Wife (two national tours), Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (Native Earth Performing Arts)  

Et Cetera: PJ has previously championed the Young Ruffians Program as a curator and co-artistic leader at Shakespeare in the Ruff.   

PJ is currently pursuing graduate studies in Creative Writing at UBC.  

Her ancestral stories guide her and light the way.  Kitatamihinâwâw.