Keith Barker is a Canadian playwright and theatre director.[1] The former artistic director of the Native Earth Performing Arts theatre company,[2][3] he is most noted for his plays The Hours That Remain, an exploration of missing and murdered Indigenous women,[4] and This Is How We Got Here, a play about youth suicide which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.[5]

Keith is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, he grew up in Northwestern Ontario,[1] Barker is a graduate of the theatre program at George Brown College.[6]

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  1. ^ a b "Talking Stick Festival's The Hours That Remain remembers the forgotten". The Georgia Straight, February 9, 2014.
  2. ^ "Talk Diversity in Canadian Theatre". Torontoist, April 9, 2017.
  3. ^ "Playwright Keith Barker to lead new play development in Stratford". stratfordbeaconherald. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
  4. ^ "Play examines plight of indigenous women". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 9, 2016.
  5. ^ "The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.
  6. ^ "Home". Ontario Métis Facts. Retrieved 2024-06-13.