Keith Barker (writer)

Keith Barker is a Canadian playwright and theatre director.[1] The current artistic director of the Native Earth Performing Arts theatre company,[2] he is most noted for his plays The Hours That Remain, an exploration of missing and murdered Indigenous women,[3] 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.[4]

A member of the Métis nation from Northwestern Ontario,[1] Barker is a graduate of the theatre program at George Brown College.

References
  1. "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. "Play examines plight of indigenous women". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 9, 2016.
  4. "The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.


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