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]

A member 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.

References

  1. 1 2 "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.


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