Ajuawak Kapashesit is an actor, director, and writer for the stage, film, and television. As a writer, his plays have been performed at theatres in Minneapolis and Los Angeles. In 2018, Ajuawak was chosen as an Indigenous Film Opportunity Fellow with the Sundance Film Institute and was a finalist for their 2018 Native Filmmakers’ Lab. In 2019, he was a story editor on the second season of the CBC sketch comedy series TALLBOYZ, and is currently working as a contributing writer on season 3. His short story, A FRESH START, was a finalist at the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Short Story Contest in 2019. Ajuawak is an alumnus of the CBC Actor’s Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre where he wrote and starred in the short CALEB (2020). He is also an alumnus of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota where he studied Linguistics and Hispanic Studies. He is of Ojibwe, Cree, and Jewish descent.